On Friday 03 June 2011 05:47 PM, Bert Huijben wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: vrijdag 3 juni 2011 14:13
>> To: Bert Huijben; dev_at_subversion.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Stuck between relocate and upgrade
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>> I do not get the impression that 1.4 is the relevant fact here. It
>> seems like the issue is just that svn upgrade needs to contact the
>> repository? So you cannot upgrade a WC that needs to be relocated?
>>
>> This does not sound like a real world problem.
>
> What the old version is, is not relevant. (See other reply: Before 1.7 we
> can never be sure if we have all the information in the working copy
> or not)
>
> The question is more: Is this problem relevant enough to support this
> scenario on 'svn upgrade'.
>
> For my test suite it isn't... But we have millions of Subversion users
> that
> will upgrade over the next few years. Some of those will have the same
> problem.
>
> And if one of those users doesn't manage its own installed applications
> (Read: typical corporate environment), then the only thing a user could do
> is delete all relevant working copies and perform a new checkout.
>
> Bert
>
If it's simple matter of adding the uuid and repos_root_url, can't we
teach one of our existing scripts like change-svn-wc-format.py to simply
add them?
Received on 2011-06-03 14:33:13 CEST