On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Loritsch, Berin <bloritsch_at_dtri.net> wrote:
> Ok, so I'm directing at the wrong people. My apologies. Regarding the
> confidentiality notice: my company's mail server attaches it to all outgoing
> messages. There is nothing I can do about it. It wasn't there when I sent
> the original message.
>
> Keeping the SVN clients in sync is far more difficult than it should be.
> That is something you can't stick your head in the ground and ignore.
> Perhaps if I have already installed the core SVN software Tortoise could
> use the instance I've already installed? That would let me have my cake and
> eat it too.
>
> I am not the only one who has to work on a closed network, and the
> unfortunate truth of the matter is that getting synchronized version of SVN
> clients can be difficult when you have to have upgrades approved. It's a
> frustrating fact of life for a large number of people. Maybe not the
> majority, but it's been a fact of my development career.
>
Then it is the responsibility of whoever is in charge of submitting the
approval request to install the new version of TSVN to be aware of the
implications if the other SVN clients are not upgraded at the same time. If
the process is really *that* strict, then by definition there should be
impact and risk analysis as to the effects of the new version. A test
machine, with new version of the SVN client A installed. Does everything
still work? No, okay, we don't deploy this new version unless we deploy SVN
client B as well.
> And yes, it is an insidious feature. It's a feature of subversion, but it
> is insidious to not be backwards compatible. It causes people to rant like
> this. The problem is everyone has their own copy of the subversion client,
> and can't possibly use an existing one. Windows rocks with this DLL hell.
>
rocks? I think you mean reeks?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:07 AM
> To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: I'm a long time user with a long time complaint
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 08:47, Loritsch, Berin <bloritsch_at_dtri.net> wrote:
> > I love SVN, and TortoiseSVN is a really good integration into Windows.
> My
> > complaint has to do with Tortoise hijacking the local
> > repository-particularly if it wasn't the tool used to check the code out
> to
> > begin with. I used to do Java code, and the SVN plugins for the major
> IDEs
> > kept pace with SVN itself and this project.
> >
> >
> >
> > Now, I'm developing .Net and I'm not nearly so lucky any more. The
> plugin I
> > have for Visual Studio uses a different version of the SVN client than
> > TortoiseSVN. It's a fact of life, it happens. The problem is that the
> SVN
> > integration with Visual Studio breaks as soon as I touch the local
> > repository with Tortoise. It breaks because the client version in my
> Visual
> > Studio plugin is too old to work with that local repository. Tortoise
> SVN
> > "upgrades" the local copy on me without warning me, telling me that is
> what
> > it is doing, letting me cancel that decision, or respecting the fact I
> > didn't use Tortoise to check out the code to begin with.
> >
> > This is very frustrating. It's happened to me at least twice this past
> > month. My only recourse is to blow away the old repository and
> re-checkout
> > the code. With a checkout that is several hundred MB, that's a sizeable
> > enough amount of time that it is very inconvenient.
> >
> > TortoiseSVN breaks the cardinal rule of useful tools: "DO NO HARM".
> Quite
> > frankly there are times where I would like to use some of the bug fixes
> with
> > a newer version of TortoiseSVN, but I have to face the problem of dealing
> > with the SVN version differences between Tortoise and the IDE plugin I'm
> > using.
>
> Nice rant, but you're directing it at the wrong people. This
> functionality (the auto-upgrade of the working copy format) is done by
> the Subversion libraries themselves. **ANY** client will do the same
> thing. And it is intentional. It is incumbent upon the user to manage
> the upgrades to his own software.
>
> > How do I turn off this insidious feature? I don't want Tortoise touching
> > the version of my local repository. At all. Not even a little bit. If
> > that means some features don't work, fine. As long as checkout, checkin,
> > and conflict resolution work I'm fine.
>
> You have directly contradicted yourself. You say you don't want
> "Tortoise" touching your working copy, but then you want to use
> Tortoise to work with your working copy.
>
> This isn't an "insidious" feature, and it can't be turned off.
> Subversion always automatically upgrades the working copy format when
> the client is upgraded. This is advertised in the release notes with
> every new version.
>
> Don't like it? Don't upgrade your client. You deal with it by keeping
> all your clients (AnkhSVN, VisualSVN, Subclipse, Tortoise,
> command-line SVN) up to date with the same version of Subversion.
>
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> Please don't include useless "confidentiality" notices on posts to
> PUBLIC mailing lists. It's just a waste of bandwidth.
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