On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:27:21AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> stsp_at_tigris.org wrote on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 13:10:47 -0800:
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4087
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> > ------- Additional comments from stsp_at_tigris.org Mon Feb 13 13:10:47 -0800 2012 -------
> > r1243694 attemps to work around the reported problem that prompted me to file
> > this issue. It ensures that all file externals use the same repository root URL
> > as used by other files. I.e. whatever the svn:externals propery says, we'll use
> > the URL to the repository that the working copy (or checkout) is using, provided
> > the repository has the same UUID.
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> How likely is this to break things?
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> I know that UUID's are supposed to be unique. But in practice, if
> people _do_ have different repositories with the same UUID, this will
> break in odd ways. How likely is that if()'s condition to occur?
We rely on UUIDs being unique in other cases, too, don't we?
There is a real actual problem here where at least one user cannot check
out old revisions with 1.7, which they can check out with 1.6.
I would tend to give fixing this regression higher priority than people
running into problems because they have set up their UUIDs the wrong way.
Received on 2012-02-13 23:40:29 CET