In the past, we used auto-upgrade because it "just worked". Most users
don't need or want to worry about working copy formats. They just want svn
to work.
I don't think we should be making things more difficult for the majority in
order to help a few users who use multiple clients. That is backwards. :-(
On Aug 25, 2012 5:26 PM, "Branko Čibej" <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 25.08.2012 11:33, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:14:57AM +0200, Branko Čibej 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.
>
> Makes sense. Except that I'd argue against having an auto-upgrade
> option. It seems to me that it would just complicate bug reporting
> without actually gaining anyone anything. If you're thinking about
> large-scale client deployments in contolled environments, surely the
> upgrade can be scripted as part of that.
>
> -- Brane
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Received on 2012-08-26 00:32:15 CEST