Re: svn not atomic with file:/// access?

El 25 Feb 2008 a las 15:19, Listman escribió:

> i do appreciate all the concern for my environment but any chance
> someone can answer my actual question, namely what weird things can
> happen with file:/// ? I'm just interested to know what the mechanics
> of this are. is the only issue that file:/// leaves the repos wide
> open for deletion on the file-system?

My two (Euro)cents:

The main reason we swicthed from rcs (yes, bare rcs) to subversion was to avoid
repository corruption associated with file:///-like access inherent to our
development environment: Windows machines using a Windows-server directory
as repository, mapped as a unit drive.

This environment worked quite well for years, until we had to use it remotely from
another site. In this situation, network connections were more likely to fail, AND
we began to notice repository corruption.

We had to mentally adjust from the one-file-at-a-time-based, prelocking-based
way to the system-wide-based, merging-base way, but, as hard as it resulted, it
was worth while.

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