Re: Pre-Design Discussion of Server->client configuration

John Peacock wrote:
> SteveKing wrote:
>
>> - yes, working copies can be used by more than one user. But why would
>> that be a problem for server configs? I mean those configs are
>> intended to pass configurations/other information from the server to
>> *all* working copies (not just individual users). So a working copy
>> used by several people shouldn't be a problem?
>
>
> Greg is saying that _I_ checked out the WC, and got the server config
> files in my .subversion directory. Then _you_ accessed the shared WC
> and did something that requires the server config files, but you never
> got them. It's not a critical error because in many cases, the server

Ah, now I get it. Sometimes I'm a little slow ;)

[snip]
> If the server config included a custom keyword, the client cannot
> perform the revert correctly without having that information (since the
> unexpand/expand would need to know about the new keyword). There are
> probably other cases where the revert requires having the server config
> information in order to restore the file to the original form.

Ok, then a problem with 'revert' would only apply to the also to be
discussed feature 'custom keywords'.

Thanks for explaining!

Stefan

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