On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 12:46 -0400, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:03:04PM -0400, Bob Archer wrote: > >> I'm just talking as a user here... and not an svn dev... but do you > >> really need to spend time on a 1.6 to 1.7 WC upgrade? Why not just > >> have 1.7 not work with 1.7 WCs and tell the users they need to do a > >> new checkout with 1.7. I mean... it might annoy some people, but I > >> just think that the svn dev team would have "that much" more time to > >> work on the real features/functionality of 1.7. I'm sure upgrades from > >> WC-NG to WC-NG.Next will be much simpler and can/should still be > >> included. > > > > You're not alone. I just raised the same question in the dev IRC channel. > > There's value in the upgrade capability for users who have many and large > > working copies. But I also think that we shouldn't let weeks of developer > > time sink into this feature. > > > > I think that getting the simple upgrade cases working (no local mods, > > no conflicts) would already make many people happy. > > We've already punted on some aspect of upgradability (no pending logs, > for instance), and it may be valuable to shift the line further toward > the common case. "You have local mods? Better commit 'em or make a > patch before upgrading."
The trouble is, people often won't find out until some time after they've upgraded, especially if it's a WC they aren't working on at the moment and they try to come back to work on it some weeks later. And for most people un-upgrading in order to do fix it isn't a practical option. - Julian