Re: seg fault when trying to load repo into Dropbox folder

On Nov 28, 2009, at 13:29, Rich E wrote:

> I am trying to set up svn for some of my local projects in a Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/home#/) folder. I am getting a segmentation fault and I don't know why. This is what I did:
>
> Richard-Eakins-MacBook-Pro:Dropbox richardeakin$ svnadmin create ./svn
> Richard-Eakins-MacBook-Pro:Dropbox richardeakin$ cd ~/pd/externals/wacom
> Richard-Eakins-MacBook-Pro:externals richardeakin$ svn import wacom file:///Users/richardeakin/Dropbox/svn/pd/wacom -m "initial wacom pd external import"
> Segmentation fault

Since Dropbox is some kind of file sharing setup, that may be a problem. Subversion repositories should be hosted on disks attached to the server locally (or something that accurately simulates that, like a SAN). Storing a repository on an NFS share can work if the NFS implementation has good support for locking. I'm not sure what Dropbox uses under the hood so I can't say whether it should work or not. I do agree Subversion should not segfault. (What version of Subversion were you using, on what version of Mac OS X?) But I would still recommend you find a proper approved method of hosting your repository, and don't try to put it on Dropbox. For example there are many companies that specialize in offering Subversion repository hosting, if you don't have a server you can run Apache or svnserve on yourself.

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Received on 2009-11-29 00:30:42 CET