[Mono-dev] SVN upgraded to subversion 1.5.x

[Alan McGovern]

Hey,

SVN commits have been taking well over 60 seconds to complete all day. Is
this just a temporary thing or is there an issue with the upgrade?

Thanks,
Alan.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Pryor <jonpryor at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:36 +0100, Robert Jordan wrote:
> > Since older clients are not updating svn:mergeinfo, merge tracking
> > could be easily broken if an old client is allowed to commit to
> > /branches.
> >
> > You may want to block those clients with a start-commit hook:
> >
> > --->8---
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > svnpath=$1
> > capabilities=$3
> >
> > if [ "${svnpath:0:9}" = "/branches" ]; then
> >
> >      if [ "${capabilities/mergeinfo//}" = "${capabilities}" ]; then
> >
> >          echo "Please update to SVN >= 1.5" > /dev/stderr
> >          exit 1
> >
> >      fi
> >
> > fi
> >
> > exit 0
> > --->8---
>
> Alas, >= 1.5 is insufficient, as OpenOffice.org has seen -- file
> movements have been *lost* during merges.  See [0] and [1].  [2]
> mentions:
>
>        Please note, subversion-1.5.1 is known to break things in the
>        Openoffice.org context and subversion-1.5.3 has been hastily
>        replaced by the subversion developers because it can break
>        mergetracking.
>
> So from the OpenOffice.org's perspective, 1.5.4 is the minimum version
> that should be considered...which is unfortunate, as openSUSE only
> provides 1.5.2.
>
> I'm not sure if or how this would impact Mono, but it is something to
> keep in mind...
>
>  - Jon
>
> [0] http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=97012
> [1] http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=23807
> [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVNMigration
>
>
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