On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 01:50:36PM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> That's correct.
>
> And Philip, I see this as really two issues:
>
> 1. we auto-upgrade working copies (at all)
> 2. we auto-upgrade working copies that are arguably not the true targets of
> an operation.
>
> I can live with the first problem if I must. It's the second that's the
> more egregious of the two, in my book. So yes, I think it makes (as you
> suggested elsethread) to add a 'read-only' mode to the WCDB, and to use that
> mode in the initial exploratory phases of a checkout operation. Maybe we
> provide a way to upgrade that to read/write programmatically rather than
> closing and re-opening the DB ... no opinion there. Whatever makes the most
> sense.
Or we just disable auto-upgrade. I think we've seen enough reasons
now why it's just a plain stupid idea in practice.
It it supposed to help users with gazillions of working copies that
they have lying around and want to use with a newly installed svn
client, and who don't have enough time to type 'svn upgrade' when
they want to start using one of their old working copies. [*]
And it annoys everyone else, as far as I can tell.
[*] That's the only reason for its existence that I've heard, to date.
Received on 2012-09-24 20:06:01 CEST