On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> wrote: > On 5/12/14, 2:49 PM, Dan Ellis wrote: >> When performing an svn info on a local working copy, I can see the file's >> checksum (sha-1 specifically), but this doesn't work on repositories. It >> would >> be really nice and save some bandwidth if I could simply compare checksums >> versus performing a diff. Is there support in the SVN server API that >> supports >> this property? If so, is there any interest from the developers to add this >> xml tag? >
> Given that 1.8 solves your --summarize issue, unless there's some other use > case for this I'm not sure it's worth exposing. My only use case would be one of performance. How does the current implementation of a diff from a local WC file to a server repository file work? Since it doesn't sound like the server can expose the checksum right now, I assume the client must bring over a copy of the file's content to do a diff against (even a summary only diff). Simply using a checksum comparison would be much more efficient for comparing large numbers of files (or files with large content). > You're of course welcome to send in a patch. You basically just need to > expose > it as a live property (to use the terms from DAV), which the client could > request specifically or just get when requesting all such properties as we do > when doing info over DAV. With svnserve the stat command would need to start > returning it. To retrieve the data you'd use svn_fs_file_checksum(). I'll take a look, though I barely know how to spell DAV. Thanks for all the help! Dan
