On 24.06.2013 23:52, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 24.06.2013 23:24, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> % /usr/local/svn-1.7.1/bin/svn co -q >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/commit-access-templates/ >> % ls commit-access-templates/.svn >> entries format pristine tmp wc.db >> % svn upgrade commit-access-templates >> % ls commit-access-templates/.svn >> pristine tmp wc.db >> >> That's a bug: the 'format' file needs to stay (with value "12\n") so >> that 1.6 clients recognize the working copy as a working copy. There >> also exists third-party code[1] which relies on the existence of >> .svn/format to identify working copies efficiently. >> >> Haven't looked yet into a fix. > And the entries file needs to remain there, too. A version-12 format > file and a 3-byte entries file (containing just "12\n") are breadcrumbs > for pre-1.7 clients. What's more, when we create a new working copy, we > create those files, too.
It would appear that the bug is just about as old as WC-NG itself. -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
