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Re: "format" file in working copies

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:14:00 +0000

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:04:21PM +0800, Edmund Wong wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote:
> > The 1.7 upgrade process will be manual -- no auto-upgrade. It is
> > expected to take a bit of time, so we can't just "sneak it in". And
> > given that it is one direction only... yah, manual.
> >
>
> PMJI, does this mean that any upgrading from a
> 1.5.x repository to a 1.6+ repository will be a one
> way deal?

We were talking about working copies, not repositories.

> I've been studying this change-svn-wc-format.py file
> and while I'm still learning (just started learning
> to be honest) Python, wouldn't it be just like adding
> a check if the format file exists. If it doesn't, it
> creates the file (depending on the version #, of course).

Yes. It's that easy to fix the script. But we had a fix for
the client already which was originally scheduled for 1.6.0,
so no one was bothered enough to fix the script.

Now that 1.6.0 was released without the client-side fix because some
developers (not me) didn't care enough about the issue, there is no
fix at all for this problem in 1.6.0, so people who use the script
with 1.6.0 have a problem.

1.6.1 will have the fix.

> Or am I barking up the wrong tree? (Pardon my incompetence
> in this matter. My desire to help is kind of making like
> a complete dork.)

By all means, don't feel ashamed and please go ahead and try to
fix the script if you can! If you post a fix to this list it will
help all others who want to use the script with 1.6.0.

Thanks,
Stefan
Received on 2009-03-26 17:15:00 CET

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