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?
The server doesn't actually expose that information to the client, though we could do so. However, the XML output probably wouldn't look the same because the existing output is extra output from the working copy data. So the output from the server wouldn't belong in wc-info. 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. 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().
