Transactions with no ops in them are generally undesirable. They take up
space in the change log but do nothing else. They are not useless
though, it may occasionally be necessary to create an empty change in
order to list all the current heads of the document as dependents of the
empty change.
The current API makes no distinction between empty changes and non-empty
changes. If the user calls `Transaction::commit` a change is created
regardless of whether there are ops to commit. To provide a more useful
API modify `commit` so that if there is a no-op transaction then no
changes are created, but provide explicit methods to create an empty
change via `Transaction::empty_change`, `Automerge::empty_change` and
`Autocommit::empty_change`. Also make these APIs available in Javascript
and C.
The logic for `clone` which was updated to support cloning a viewed
document inadverantly left the heads of the cloned document state in
place, which meant that cloned documents could not be `change`d. Set
state.heads to undefined when cloning to allow changing them.
Sometimes you need a cheap copy of a document at a given set of heads
just so you can see what has changed. Cloning the document to do this is
quite expensive when you don't need a writable copy. Add automerge.view
to allow a cheap read only copy of a document at a given set of heads
and add an additional heads argument to clone for when you do want a
writable copy.
Continuing our theme of treating all languages equally, move
wrappers/javascript to javascrpit. Automerge libraries for new languages
should be built at this top level if possible.
2022-10-16 19:55:54 +01:00
Renamed from wrappers/javascript/test/basic_test.ts (Browse further)
