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Re: SmartSVN (by Wandisco) - repair working copy feature

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:52:59 +0200

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:46:21 +0200:
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Mat Booth <mat.booth_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>> > On 21 September 2012 10:20, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> ... a source of inspiration ...
>> >
>> > I see what you did there :-)
>>
>> Heh. To be clear: I haven't seen the code :-). But I've used the trial
>> version of SmartSVN a couple of times to repair working copies at our
>> company, so I can see the kinds of repairs that it does (in a much
>> safer way than what I was doing myself (fiddling around with sqlite
>> and trying various workaround with 'svn update -r0' and 'svn update
>> --set-depth=exclude')).
>
> "In a much safer way"? How did it implement its repairs?

I don't know how they implemented them, but at least they programmed
the repair routines and (presumably) tested them. Which is already way
better than me typing and potentially fat-fingering some 'sqlite
.svn/wc.db "update nodes set ... where ..."' statements :-).

-- 
Johan
Received on 2012-09-21 14:53:52 CEST

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