On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:27:28PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 20.09.2012 16:14, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> > I just noticed that SmartSVN has been acquired by Wandisco [1].
> >
> > IMHO, one of the nice features of SmartSVN's professional (commercial,
> > non-free) version is the ability to repair broken working copies. It's
> > listed as the feature "Guided fixing of rare working copy problems" on
> > the "Compare Editions" page [2]. It does things like correcting
> > checksums, refcounts, recovering missing pristines, ... (by contacting
> > the repository of course).
> >
> > Are there any intentions of porting that feature to core SVN? Now that
> > the Wandisconians are involved with that codebase ...
> > Just asking ... :-).
>
> The WANdisconians do not, in fact, see the SmartSVN codebase. At least I
> sure hope we don't have access to it; all sorts of problems could arise
> if proprietary, closed-source stuff started showing up in the public
> repo, even by accident.
AFAIK SmartSVN is written in Java. The feature Johan wants (which I agree
would be very useful) would need to be rewritten in C anyway to be included
in the core.
> That's unless WANdisco wants to open-source the whole thing. :) Which I
> have no opinion of, nor insight into.
That's an interesting question indeed.
WANdisco has submitted projects to the Apache Incubator in the past.
Being a Subversion client written in Java, this one seems like it
would be a good fit :) It would need to switch from SVNKit to JavaHL
for legal reasons, but that should be easy. Probably more of a business
model question, rather than a technical one.
Received on 2012-09-20 16:42:36 CEST