On Apr 15, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:29:42PM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> Currently, trunk creates and uses format 11 working copies, which are
>> "old style". These have the standard entries file, along with
>> various
>> directories for wcprops, regular props, pristine files, and other
>> bits. In order to make implementation easier, and to help us test
>> wc-
>> ng, I'd like to move trunk to format 12, the wc-ng format, soon.
>> Here's why, and what you need to know for the transition.
>
> +1 here, but can we first make everyone of us run with SVN_ENABLE_NG
> for a week or two, before we make it the default? I'd hate to run into
> show-stopper bugs that make working copies unusable without having a
> convenient way to revert to wc-1.
>
> Since it's so easy to run wc-ng by just setting an env var, I don't
> think anyone would not try it if you said "everyone, please set the
> env var now, we think it's ready". And that might already uncover
> some bugs.
We can go ahead and try this, but forgive me if I don't have much
faith that it will happen. We had serf on trunk for *years* and
encouraged people to use it, but it wasn't until it because the
default on trunk that folks really started testing it. We can tell
people to use the envvar for wc-ng, but I don't think it will happen
on a regular basis.
-Hyrum
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