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Re: Re: Determining TrotoiseSVN version from a script.

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-08-06 17:59:27 CEST

On 8/6/07, Bob Cunningham <bcunningham@sandel.com> wrote:
> The Cygwin svn CLI client works fine, and has been totally error-free
> for me. We use Cygwin because it provides a single-point of update for
> a broad array of pre-packaged utilities. While Windows-native instances
> exist for some of these tools, most of which are faster than the
> corresponding Cygwin build, only Cygwin provides us with a single
> integrated update mechanism. Only Cygwin builds from the original GNU
> sources, ensuring developer builds done under Windows are compatible
> with builds done on our mix of Windows and Linux production servers.
>
> TortoiseSVN provides a rather different notion of compatibility.
>
> The fact that TortoiseSVN does not include the matching CLI app baffles
> me. It would be a trivial addition to the project. Even if the actual
> CLI binary weren't included, the TortoiseSVN installer could simply
> offer to TRY to get and install the corresponding CLI as part of the
> installation/upgrade process. At the very least, the installer should
> attempt to run the local CLI svn instance and try to detect the
> incompatibility before a user crashes into the problem.

<rant snipped>

Even if TSVN did provide the official CLI binary, it would result in
the same errors you're getting now. You would gain NOTHING.

The Cygwin client thinks it's running under a *NIX environment, and it
is well-documented that sharing working copies between OSes and
filesystems can result in bad behavior from the tools. Head over to
the Subversion Users list, and ask people if it's a good idea to run
the native Win32 binary and Cygwin binary against the same WC, and
they'll tell you the exact same thing.

TSVN is a GUI application. It's more than an application, actually -
it's a GUI shell extension. It seems pretty logical that it *not*
include a CLI, from my perspective.

Let the maintainers of the TSVN project decide what's "trivial" to add.

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