Re: r21207 (Renaming --no-svndiff1 to --pre-1.4-compatible)

At 02:27 PM 26/08/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>On 8/26/06, Justin Erenkrantz <justin@erenkrantz.com> wrote:
>> On 8/26/06, David Glasser <glasser@mit.edu> wrote:
>> > OK, I know this is bikeshedding, but I'd add the word "servers" onto
>> > the end of that.
>>
>> "repositories" seems better, no? -- justin
>
>No, the point is that it makes the repository compatible with 1.3.x
>server programs (svnserve, mod_dav_svn, ra_local), and doesn't imply
>that if you fail to use this switch 1.3.x client programs won't work.
>Repositories don't really need to be compatible with each other.

Are there not some people out there directly using Subversion tools against
repositories, with file:// URLs?

I think a better word to add to the help text would be "FSFS", since most
people won't be able to automatically link "svndiff1" with the FSFS
repository format. In fact, I personally wouldn't mention svndiff1 at all.
I'd use something like:

Prevents Subversion from using the new FSFS repository file format added in
Subversion 1.4, which is incompatible with earlier versions of Subversion.

Just my take on it :-)

Jonathan Gilbert

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Received on Sat Aug 26 21:22:52 2006