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Re: svn not atomic with file:/// access?

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_telegraphics.com.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:22:02 -0600

On 28-Feb-08, at 3:55 AM, Ignacio González T. wrote:

> El 25 Feb 2008 a las 15:19, Listman escribió:
>
> > i do appreciate all the concern for my environment but any chance
> > someone can answer my actual question, namely what weird things can
> > happen with file:/// ? I'm just interested to know what the
> mechanics
> > of this are. is the only issue that file:/// leaves the repos wide
> > open for deletion on the file-system?
>
> My two (Euro)cents:
>
> The main reason we swicthed from rcs (yes, bare rcs) to subversion
> was to avoid repository corruption associated with file:///-like
> access inherent to our development environment: Windows machines
> using a Windows-server directory as repository, mapped as a unit
> drive.

I believe this is also the architecture of Visual SourceSafe (shudder).
—Toby

>
> This environment worked quite well for years, until we had to use
> it remotely from another site. In this situation, network
> connections were more likely to fail, AND we began to notice
> repository corruption.
>
> We had to mentally adjust from the one-file-at-a-time-based,
> prelocking-based way to the system-wide-based, merging-base way,
> but, as hard as it resulted, it was worth while.
>
> --
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