Re: svn commit: r22580 - trunk/subversion/svnserve

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, Garrett Rooney wrote:

> On 12/5/06, dlr@tigris.org <dlr@tigris.org> wrote:
> >Author: dlr
> >Date: Tue Dec 5 09:59:26 2006
> >New Revision: 22580
> >
> >Log:
> >Improve the way svnserve handles the --root option.
> >
> >* subversion/svnserve/main.c
> > Include "svn_io.h".
> > (main): Make the --root option mandatory on Windows. Make sure the
> > path passed to --root actually exists.
>
> Is the windows change a backwards compatibility problem? Will people
> have trouble with previously working installs when they upgrade?

Given that the default root of "/" is meaningless on Windows, this is
a bug fix for lack of argument validation on Windows. Anyone not
using --root on Windows would already be broken, no?