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Re: Problem committing .doc files

From: Mark Reibert <svn_at_reibert.com>
Date: 2007-08-31 08:47:17 CEST

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 01:50 -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> Quoting Mark Reibert:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 17:30 -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> > > 1.) Assuming the repository is created, and empty (with all default
> > > settings), check out from the 'client.'
> > >
> > > 2.) Create a new .doc file in MS Word. I have been using the word
> > > "Ping" in the file initially (irrelevant).
> > >
> > > 3.) Add & Commit the file.
> > >
> > > 4.) Edit the file, appending "Pong" as a second line.
> > >
> > > 5.) Commit (the first edit sometimes succeeds).
> > >
> > > 6.) `svn up`
> > >
> > > 7.) Edit the file, appending something as a third line.
> > >
> > > 8.) Commit -- this is where I receive errors.
> >
> > Just followed these steps and cannot reproduce the problem. Everything
> > worked as expected; that is, the last commit worked just fine.
> >
> > I am using SVN 1.4.5, both server and client.
> >
> I have svnserve running as a service on my laptop -- tomorrow I'll see
> if I can reproduce the problem following the above steps.

Well now I am confused ... I thought those *were* the reproduction
steps!

> Say, for instance, I cannot get the problem to reproduce. Should I look
> at the FreeBSD ports version of SVN as the problem? Perhaps I should
> compile from source? (These are just a few things I thought of off the
> top of my head -- if anyone has any other ideas, I'd love to hear them.)

Anything is possible, but it just does not feel right that such a
fundamental and catastrophic problem would have slipped into a port. I
compile SVN all the time and the included test suite is extensive.

I think you are going to have to provide the minimum, complete, and
consistent reproduction steps along with the specifics of your client
and server configuration ...

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Mark S. Reibert, Ph.D.
svn@reibert.com
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