[SVN-1275] Miscellaneous compatability cleanups.

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: 0.33
• Component/s: libsvn_ra_neon

Environment

other

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ben Collins-Sussman
• Created: 30/Apr/03 13:39
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:38
• Resolved: 09/Jul/07 21:15

Description

The solution to issue #891 ("REPORT fails if item missing in HEAD")
was to create a new style of <update-report>:  it's always run against
the VCC, and both path/revs destined for svn_repos_dir_delta are
within the request body now.

At the moment, the server understands both old and new-style
update-reports.  And the client tries the new-style first, then falls
back to the old-style.

Eventually, we need to have the client stop falling back to old-style,
and have the server stop supporting old-style.  But there's no rush
here, because no development is blocking on this task.  So we'll leave
this task open for a while, low-priority, so we can be as courteous to
users as possible regarding compatibility.

[To see what eventually needs changing, look at commits 5764 and 5768.)