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RE: wc-ng on trunk: what you need to know

From: Bert Huijben <rhuijben_at_sharpsvn.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:39:18 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> Sent: dinsdag 28 april 2009 9:23
> To: Hyrum K. Wright
> Cc: dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: wc-ng on trunk: what you need to know
>
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 at 19:57 -0500:
> >
> > On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >
> > > Hyrum K. Wright wrote on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 at 13:08 -0500:
> > > > Existing (pre-wc-ng) trunk working copies are format 11. This
format
> > > > is not supported moving forward, and you will need to either
downgrade
> > > > to format 10 (supported by 1.6.x) or upgrade to format 12.
> > >
> > > How do I upgrade or downgrade a wc from format 11?
> > >
> > > (the one I want to upgrade is my svn trunk wc. the one I want to
> > > downgrade is another wc I stupidly used the wrong trunk version on.)
> >
> > Upgrade can be accomplished by running 'svn cleanup'. Any Subversion
> command
> > run on the working copy should tell you to do this before the working
copy
> is
> > usable with Subversion 1.7.
> >
>
> Oh, okay. You said that 11 was no longer supported, so I wasn't sure
> whether upgrading from it was supported.
>
> > Downgrade is (theoretically) supported by change-svn-wc-format.py,
thought I
> > have not tested this method.

I remember some reported issues on the cached properties (Like
svn:externals, svn:special, svn:needs-lock) that weren't set correctly when
downgrading from format 11. (In many working copies you wouldn't notice).

        Bert

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