On 24.06.2013 23:52, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 24.06.2013 23:24, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> % /usr/local/svn-1.7.1/bin/svn co -q https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/commit-access-templates/
>> % ls commit-access-templates/.svn
>> entries format pristine tmp wc.db
>> % svn upgrade commit-access-templates
>> % ls commit-access-templates/.svn
>> pristine tmp wc.db
>>
>> That's a bug: the 'format' file needs to stay (with value "12\n") so
>> that 1.6 clients recognize the working copy as a working copy. There
>> also exists third-party code[1] which relies on the existence of
>> .svn/format to identify working copies efficiently.
>>
>> Haven't looked yet into a fix.
> And the entries file needs to remain there, too. A version-12 format
> file and a 3-byte entries file (containing just "12\n") are breadcrumbs
> for pre-1.7 clients. What's more, when we create a new working copy, we
> create those files, too.
It would appear that the bug is just about as old as WC-NG itself.
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Received on 2013-06-25 00:04:11 CEST