Hi all, first post, be gentle...
A little history: I work for a mixed Windows and Linux shop (mostly
Windows). We've been using CVS for quite some time, but several
developers complain about its shortcoming, especially with the recent
restructuring of our source tree, which of course blew away all the
history on many files. Said developers are partial to Perforce, but we
are on a bit of a budget. I've done some homework, and Subversion looks
like the ticket for us.
However, what looks good on paper isn't translating to production very
well. I've got Subversion 1.0 up and running from David Summer's rpms on
a Red Hat Linux 7.2 box (which is also our CVS server), with the
intention of using predominantly svn+ssh for access, since everyone
already has a shell account on the machine. I was able to import our
source tree just fine from the local machine after creating the repo,
check out, check in, etc. When we moved over to a Windows box using
TortoiseSVN, all hell broke loose. Basically, at least one in every two
actions taken resulted in db errors, with a message telling us to run
DB_RUNRECOVERY.
Fast forward a bit, I nuked the repo, recreated it, then did an import
from a Windows box via TortoiseSVN. Everything looked fine. I even got
two machines set up, both checking in, checking out, diffing, repo
browsing, etc., simultaneously and everything (one box running Windows
2003 Server, one running Windows 2000 Pro). Excellent, I thought.
However, note that both machines were using my login. Then I went over
to another developer's machine, tried his login, and got db errors
(can't recall if they were immediate, or after a number of files had
been checked out). Running svnadmin recover on our repo isn't even
recovering it now. (I haven't tried using db_runrecovery directly yet).
Now, I do have both a primary user and group defined for Subversion (u/g
svn/svn), and all developers are members of the svn group, so I don't
think I have any permissions issues, but I've been fighting this thing
for more than a week... I'm about to try a newer BerkeleyDB (4.2, versus
4.0 on our RHL7.2 machine) and Subversion on a Fedora Core 2 machine to
see if it is any better, but if anyone has any insight into what my
problem might be, I'd appreciate the help! I know everyone will REALLY
like Subversion over CVS, once we get it running in a stable fashion.
TIA,
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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
System Administrator
VoiceBox Technologies
jarod@voicebox.com
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Received on Thu Mar 4 20:44:02 2004