Re: We should bump WC format version number for 1.5.

On Oct 5, 2007, at 18:55, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> On 10/5/07, Steven Bakke <steven.bakke@amd.com> wrote:
>
>> I would prefer that it just print an error and exit under normal
>> circumstances. Upgrade of a working copy format really ought to be
>> an explicit operation. I don't like making it a compile-time-only
>> option. At a minimum, it should require '--force' to be specified.
>>
>
> Rather than creating new flags or runtime config options, wouldn't it
> just be simpler to prompt the user before doing an auto-upgrade? I
> mentioned this idea earlier in the thread.
>

I don't like the idea that I'd have to implement a new call back to
notice this
prompt request in all my tools based on the svn libraries.

Getting an error returned saying you must upgrade the wc would work with
existing code.

If you have a method to upgrade the WC I'd need to have that available
in the SVN library interface.

Barry

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Received on Sat Oct 6 19:07:38 2007