On 20 November 2012 18:31, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Oto BREZINA <otik_at_printflow.eu> wrote:
>>
>> 1.6 was file based WC making it easy to copy and share - not really safe
>> through.
>>
>> 1.7 is DB based. Do you expect you DB. (e.g. MySQL) databases data can
>> be safely read from multiple platform, or even same platform in multiple
>> instances?
>> It may but it is not recommended.
>> When switching OS/or user many states may be unhandled, rights may get
>> wrong ...
>> DB versions may not match, have different int size, or have whats ever
>> difference.
>>
>> You are free to try but was informed that it is not supported - tested,
>> was not intend to make it work - so don't be surprised.
>
> This may be true, there may be implementation decisions made that
> prevent using a working copy from one system on another. But if this
> is the case, I think this is a bad design decision; or at the very
> least, bad documentation. Consider a person who keeps a working copy
> on a thumb drive to cart around with them to whatever computer they
> happen to be working on. Shouldn't they be able to commit, update,
> whatever, on any of these systems, as long as a compatible version of
> SVN is installed? At the very least, the fact that SVN does not
> operate well across OSes should be documented. Using git or Hg, for
> example, I would certainly expect this to Just Work, I see no reason
> why SVN should be different in this regard. A program should be able
> to read and write its own data regardless of where the program was
> running at the time the data was created.
>
> I have noticed some quirks when working between OSes on the same WC,
> but they are little things like the Windows SVN not being able to set
> the execute bit when the SVN properties say it should be set. I expect
> things like that. WC corruption would be totally unexpected to
> basically anybody I think. I don't think you can fairly call it user
> error when the user was never warned not to do that.
You're barking up the wrong tree here. The WC handling is done
entirely by the subversion library, not by TortoiseSVN. You really
need to take this argument to the subversion users mailing list.
Simon
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