Hi all,
I have attached my recent patch along with this mail. Please share
your views.
Thanks and regards
Prabhu
On Saturday 21 May 2011 09:39 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Kamesh Jayachandran<kamesh_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> On 05/20/2011 10:28 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
>>> Log message and patch attached.
>>>
>>> svnadmin create accepts the --config-dir option but no longer uses it
>>> for anything. I do not believe we can remove the option from the UI,
>>> but we can remove the code that get the configuration. The reason is
>>> that I have observed a couple of odd scenarios where this code causes
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> 1) The process running svnadmin does not have read authority to
>>> $HOME/.subversion For example, here is an example from a mailing
>>> list:
>>>
>>> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/kforge-user/2007-February/000088.html
>>>
>>> 2) Have observed similar problem on Windows when the process is
>>> running and it could not determine the home folder. Never figured out
>>> the root cause of this problem, as normally this does work OK on
>>> Windows.
>>>
>>> The workaround people have used is to specify --config-dir and point
>>> it at ' ' or some random folder they can read. But if we just removed
>>> this code they would not get a problem in the first place.
>>>
>>> Ran make check and manually tested the binary.
>>>
>>
>>> - SVN_ERR(svn_config_get_config(&config, opt_state->config_dir, pool));
>>> - SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline__apply_config_options(config,
>>> opt_state->config_options,
>>> - "svnadmin: ",
>>> "--config-option"));
>>> SVN_ERR(svn_repos_create(&repos, opt_state->repository_path,
>>> NULL, NULL,
>>> config, fs_config, pool));
>>
>> You can as well remove the config parameter and pass NULL instead.
>>
>> Prabhu posted similar patch 4 months back
>>
>> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-01/0157.shtml
>>
>> My +1 for this change.
> Thanks for the pointer. I think you should go ahead and commit
> Prabhu's patch. If some future version of Subversion starts to use
> the config in svn_repos_create it is easy enough to reinstate the code
> in this function. Until then, it seems like there are enough people
> getting an unnecessary error that we ought to fix it.
>
Received on 2011-05-23 09:39:04 CEST