Re: svn 1.8 causing locks to be broken on update

As of 1.8 SVN only uses the serf library for http communication, and
> no longer the neon library (before 1.8, both were part of svn, but
> neon was the default library).
>
> Unfortunately there is no runtime-switch (yet) to enable debug output
> with svn+serf. There is already an open enhancement request for this
> [1].
>
> You can enable debug logging with serf by rebuilding (see [2]).
>
> With your combined input, this issue really starts to look like a
> serf-related issue.
> - Succeeds with file://
> - Fails with http(s), but only with 1.8 clients, not with older clients.
>
> To double check that it's serf-related, perhaps one of you could try
> with 1.7+serf, and see if that fails as well. You can enable serf with
> 1.7 by specifying http-library=serf in the servers configuration file,
> or by passing
> --config-option servers:global:http-library=serf
> on the command line.
>
> Perhaps it's time to open an issue in the issue tracker for this.
>
>
​Subversion client 1.7 using serf cause the lock to break! But it does not
break when using neon (default)

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C:\tmp>svn --username will --password will co
http://svntest.freshcomp.com.au/svn/repos --config-option
servers:global:http-library=serf wc
A wc\Trunk
A wc\Trunk\Lettus
A wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin
A wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin\file2.txt
A wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin\test.txt
A wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin\file1.txt
Checked out revision 4.

C:\tmp>cd wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin
C:\tmp\wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin>dir
Directory of C:\tmp\wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin
15/08/2013 12:07 PM <DIR> .
15/08/2013 12:07 PM <DIR> ..
13/08/2013 01:14 PM 6 file1.txt
13/08/2013 05:01 PM 5 file2.txt
13/08/2013 05:35 PM 6 test.txt
               3 File(s) 17 bytes
               2 Dir(s) 89,690,247,168 bytes free

C:\tmp\wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin>svn lock test.txt --config-option
servers:global:http-library=serf
'test.txt' locked by user 'will'.

C:\tmp\wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin>svn st --config-option
servers:global:http-library=serf
     K test.txt

C:\tmp\wc\Trunk\Lettus\lbin>cd ..
C:\tmp\wc\Trunk\Lettus>svn up --config-option
servers:global:http-library=serf
Updating '.':
At revision 4.

C:\tmp\wc\Trunk\Lettus>cd ..
C:\tmp\wc\Trunk>svn up --config-option servers:global:http-library=serf
Updating '.':
At revision 4.

C:\tmp\wc\Trunk>cd ..
C:\tmp\wc>svn up --config-option servers:global:http-library=serf
Updating '.':
UB Trunk\Lettus\lbin\test.txt

Updated to revision 4.

C:\tmp\wc>svn st --config-option servers:global:http-library=serf
C:\tmp\wc>​

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​Felipe​