RE: Problem with adding files in SVN 1.8.0+. Is it in the tracker already?

Good evening Thorsten,

> Guten Tag Geoff Field,
> am Mittwoch, 25. September 2013 um 02:25 schrieben Sie:
>
> > Hi Bert,[...]
>
> Please don't rely on everyone is seeing HTML mails by
> default,

My apologies. My only excuse (apart from laziness) is that the post to which I replied was in HTML.

> I don't and your answer is almost useless as plain text.

And I thought *I* was a throwback ;-)

> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

There's a difference between "being taught" and "learning". The latter relies on actually *remembering* what a teacher has tried to hammer through one's skull.

For those who do not or will not run an email client with HTML capabilities turned on, here is the post in plain text format:

From: Bert Huijben [mailto:bert_at_qqmail.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013 6:43 AM
To: 'JANIKOVIC Jan'; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: RE: Problem with adding files in SVN 1.8.0+. Is it in the tracker already?

> There is no issue for this specific part of those threads created as nobody was able to produce a reproduction recipe
> for this problem to the developers yet.

Surely it would be useful to add the issue report anyway, even if there is no easy way to reproduce it. After all, it is a known issue now. We can then work on the reproduction recipe.

> All the threads you quoted end with this request. So unless you add a way to reproduce the problem (perhaps with the
> help of the earlier reporters) to the discussion there is not much we can do for you at this time/

I'm sure I posted the method for me to reproduce it. We were running a 1.2.3 server served by Apache 2.0.54 on Windows Server 2003 SP2. I was then using a 1.8.1 client on Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. I thought I'd posted my recipe here:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-08/0035.shtml

However, this is NOT the full recipe. Instead, look at this post:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-08/0140.shtml

That contains the steps I took to reliably produce errors with the server/client setup we had. Unlike most of our repositories, the Playground repo has always been FSFS. The problem happened with our BDB repos as well.

> The problem doesn't reproduce with the currently supported versions, nor with the older versions we tried to setup
> specifically to trigger the problem quoted here.

But it's easily reproduced here, and obviously is at other sites too.

> Do you see the problem in all working copies, or just in certain scenarios? (E.g. multiple levels of added
> directories? Mixed revision copies? Etc. etc.)

I saw it in nearly every case. There were rare occasions when the add/commit would just work, but in the majority of cases it would fail.

Regards,

Geoff

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