On May 25, 2008, at 9:12 PM- May 25, 2008, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Talden <talden_at_gmail.com> writes:
>> To me, this feels like something that should be available to every
>> user should they need to repair their WC though.
>>
>> Requiring that all users must have scripting engine X installed in
>> addition to Subversion doesn't seem ideal.
>
> We have no data on how often this comes up, and IIRC have received few
> posts about it. It's hard to justify a new core feature based on
> that.
>
> If we try to make as many of our contrib scripts be in (say) Python as
> possible, then at least once a user installs Python for any script,
> it'll be installed for many other scripts they might need in the
> future.
my company experiences this a lot. working copies get broken
regularly, usually by some other misbehaving tool writing into the
managed dir and corrupting the .svn metadata. a way to rebuild the
broken meta-data (without losing any local modifications) would really
help in this situation.
the kinds of issues we see regularly are:
- orphaned locks - a file not locked in the WC but locked in the depot
(with only 1 WC)
- trashed .svn dirs - we find the .svn dir gets set to zerolength file
by certain unsociable tools..
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Received on 2008-05-26 07:04:28 CEST