> Jon Delay writes: > > I keep most of my file system under svn, so I have .svn directories all over > > the place owned by root, chmod 700. > > > > Somewhere between 1.6.3 and 1.6.9, `svn checkout` started checking the root > > directory > > for the existence of an .svn directory and trying to look in it.
[Peter Samuelson] > ...and getting "Permission denied", and thus he cannot use 'svn checkout' > in his home directory. > > The following (untested) patch will probably fix this - but is it a good > idea? Are there situations where we _want_ to catch errors trying to > detect a svn 1.7 wc in svn 1.6? I personally don't see why we need to. Stefan reminded me of this issue, so I created branch 1.6.x-wc-ng-error with the patch (tested now) and nominated it for 1.6.10. Daniel Shahaf asked me the same question I quoted above: are there specific errors we would _want_ to catch in is_inside_wc_ng()? I still think the answer is probably no. It is not is_inside_wc_ng's job to discover random errors related to accessing things in parent directories, errors that likely have nothing to do with wc-ng or Subversion. ...Either way, since Hyrum announced he's rolling 1.6.10 tomorrow, this patch may or may not make it in time. Peter
