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Re: svn commit: r1331883 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/svnadmin/main.c

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:51:43 -0400

On 15.10.2012 17:14, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote:
> However, if you have a long-running process like a server, that race
> condition extends now extends over its whole lifetime. I.e. once a
> revprop got read, any change to its value by a pre-1.8 tool may never
> get detected.

Ouch. This seems wrong. I'd understand a design like this if the
long-running server were the only process accessing the repository, but
that has never been the case in Subversion. In this case, a cache that
can't detect out-of-band changes to the canonical dataset isn't very useful.

-- Brane

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