jaa@tigris.org wrote:
> Author: jaa
> Date: Mon Sep 20 21:22:10 2004
> New Revision: 11060
>
> Modified:
> trunk/www/project_faq.html
> Log:
> Added a new entry, '#def-wedged-repository' which tries to explain what
> we mean when we say that a repository is wedged.
>
> * www/project_faq.html
> (def-wedged-repository): ditto.
>
>
> Modified: trunk/www/project_faq.html
> Url:
> http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/trunk/www/project_faq.html?view=diff&rev=11060&p1=trunk/www/project_faq.html&r1=11059&p2=trunk/www/project_faq.html&r2=11060
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> --- trunk/www/project_faq.html (original) +++ trunk/www/project_faq.html
> Mon
> Sep 20 21:22:10 2004 @@ -171,6 +171,8 @@
> uses?</a></li>
> <li>What's a 'bikeshed'?</li>
> <li>What's a 'baton'?</li>
> +<li><a href="#def-wedged-repository">What do you mean when you say that
> + repository is 'wedged'?</a></li>
>
> <![CDATA[=========================================================]]>
>
> @@ -2114,6 +2116,34 @@
> developers call the structures "batons" because they're passed around
> quite a bit.</p>
>
> +<![CDATA[-----------------------------------------------------------]]>
> +
> +<h3><a name="def-wedged-repository">What do you mean when you say that
> + repository is 'wedged'?</a></h3>
> +
> +wedged repository:
> +<blockquote>
> +A Subversion repository consists of two different internal parts, a
> +working compartment and a storage compartment. A wedged repository is
> +a repository where the working compartment is unaccessible for some
> +reason, but the storage compartment is intact. Therefore, a wedged
> +repository has not suffered any loss of data, but the working
> +compartment has to be corrected before you can access the
> +repository. See this entry for details
> +how to do that.
> +</blockquote>
> +
> +corrupted repository:
> +
> +<blockquote>
> +A corrupted Subversion repository is a repository where the storage
> +compartment has been damaged, and therefore there is some degree of
> +real data loss in the repository.
> +</blockquote>
> +
> +<p>You might also like to check The Jargon File's definition for
> +'wedged'.
> +</p>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
The compartment analogy is somewhat forced - I'd say we should be expressing
ourselves in terms of locks being left behind.
Also, nowhere does the above say we are talking about BDB repositories.
Max.
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Received on Tue Sep 21 10:47:06 2004