On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:14:57AM +0200, Branko ÄŒibej wrote:
> After all the discussions about this topic, I've slowly come to the
> conclusion that this is the best option. The only trouble I see is in
> properly supporting older WC formats, because as far as I can see,
> there's not much infrastructure in place for that.
>
> Unless you think that it's OK for newer SVN releases to simply not work
> on old working copies?
I thought the plan going forward was to require a working copy
upgrade when the user upgrades to 1.8. What I'm proposing is
that this upgrade should be a manual step as it was during the
1.6 -> 1.7 transition, with the option of always auto-upgrading
for advanced users who know what they're doing. I've seen too
many inexperienced users run into problems because of auto-upgrade
during the 1.5 -> 1.6 transition (mainly users of multi-client
setups in large corporations). By comparison the 1.6 -> 1.7
transition was a lot easier for those users because they were
made aware of what was happening.
I'm not proposing to add read/write support of the 1.7 format to 1.8,
if that's what you're asking for. I know SVNKit has this feature
but it's a bigger task than I can add on my todo pile right now.
Received on 2012-08-25 11:34:27 CEST