RE: Consultant

2015-06-10 Thread Bob Archer
Why not go with a cloud based hosting provider? There are quite a few professional ones out there. I expect it would cost less to pay one of these providers than a single person dedicated to supporting you. http://www.svnhostingcomparison.com/ From: Matthias Kehder

RE: PVCS to SUBVERSION

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Archer
We used this: http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/svn_importer.php it worked very well. From: G Suresh [mailto:sures...@hcl.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:36 AM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: PVCS to SUBVERSION Hi, We want to migrate Pvcs to Subversion. Could you please

RE: svn upgrade does nothing

2014-10-21 Thread Bob Archer
I suggest you do a new, clean checkout. You can just copy the dirty files into the new working copy. From: Julio Andre Biason [mailto:jabia...@ucs.br] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:11 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: svn upgrade does nothing Hello, I'm having a weird issue with

RE: Every Version of Every File in a Repository

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Archer
You know, the files aren't really stored as files per say. Also, if using correct ACLs in your repository there is no way any of these files can be executed. I assume by scan you are talking about virus scanning. I would question the need to do this. Yea, I know... but still, many request

RE: Blocking root from SVN repository

2014-08-28 Thread Bob Archer
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: -Original Message- And I hate to repeat myself, but I'll repeat for the third time this question: if file:// is not intended to be used, then what are the available options for those who need a version

RE: Blocking root from SVN repository

2014-08-27 Thread Bob Archer
-Original Message- And I hate to repeat myself, but I'll repeat for the third time this question: if file:// is not intended to be used, then what are the available options for those who need a version control system and can't set up a server? Zé Does the file server support SSH?

RE: newbie cant import files into repo

2014-07-21 Thread Bob Archer
Hi, I created a repo using svnadmin create in a dir called trunk (that's what your supposed to do, right?) The operation succeeded but the files that I want to version (c source which I should have versioned long ago.) I can't seem to add to the repo. When the code is ready for alpha release I

RE: 10 seconds timeout before each operation involving network connection

2014-04-18 Thread Bob Archer
I posted this already on the TortoiseSVN mailing list and it was suggested to report it to the Subversion Users mailing list: We are using TortoiseSVN (1.8.x) and the subversion command-line client (1.8.8) on Windows7 clients together with a VisualSVN (2.5.x) Server inside our company

RE: Configure user name?

2014-04-18 Thread Bob Archer
Does subversion provide a way for the user to configure his username, thus avoiding having to pass the --username flag everytime he has to commit something? Thanks Zé The credentials should be cached. If they are not being cached check in ~/.subversion/config, you probably have

Working copy blocking

2014-04-04 Thread Bob Archer
We are all running the latest TortoiseSVN which is build with svn 1.8.8. Attempting to add files, I got this message (retrying it, the add worked) Command: Add Error: sqlite[S5]: database is locked Error: Additional errors: Error: sqlite[S5]: database is locked Error: Another process is blocking

RE: Working copy blocking

2014-04-04 Thread Bob Archer
On 04/04/14 18:13, Bob Archer wrote: [TVSN + AnkhSVN on Win7] Error: sqlite[S5]: database is locked Error: Another process is blocking the working copy database, or the underlying filesystem does not support file locking; if the working copy is on a network filesystem, make sure file

RE: How to do a partial merge from branch to trunk?

2014-03-12 Thread Bob Archer
Hi I am working on a branch and I want to feed some (but not all) of my changes back into the trunk and then to continue work on the branch. Please will someone advise me of the correct way to handle this situation? Best regards David Generally the smallest unit you can merge is a

RE: Created branches, tags, and trunk after the fact, MOSTLY works

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Archer
Are you branching from a point prior to moving your project into the trunk directory? -Original Message- From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:47 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Created branches, tags, and trunk after the fact,

RE: Created branches, tags, and trunk after the fact, MOSTLY works

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Archer
Ah, that's what I get for responding before reading the whole thread. Glad you figured it out. -Original Message- From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 5:48 PM To: Bob Archer; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Created branches, tags

RE: svndumpfilter woes

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Archer
Are you streaming to disk, then loading from disk? You might want to just directly pump the dump stream into the load. Just an idea. From: Ian Wiles [mailto:ian.alexander.wi...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 3:04 AM To: subversion_us...@googlegroups.com Cc: Ian Wiles;

RE: svn upgrade fails with failed assertion

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Archer
I'm trying to upgrade a very old svn repo but the command is failing. % svn upgrade . svn: /build/buildd/subversion- 1.7.5/subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:1518: uri_skip_ancestor: Assertion `svn_uri_is_canonical(parent_uri, ((void *)0))' failed. [1]    3298 abort      svn upgrade .

RE: Multiple SVN repos with single server?

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Archer
I've been using Apache to proide HTTP access to several different SVN repository directories on a single server for about 10 years. I'm moving everything to a new server and I was considering using SVNSERVE in place of or in addition to Apache for access to the repositories. Sure... but I

RE: Multiple SVN repos with single server?

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Archer
be rooted at the same location and you use the -d switch to specify that root location. -Original Message- From: Tom Malia [mailto:tomma...@ttdsinc.com] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 4:18 PM To: Bob Archer; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: Multiple SVN repos with single server

RE: Showing unmerged revisions within a range

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Archer
I created a branch (4.0.x) from trunk. Work progressed on trunk and was selectively merged down to the 4.0.x branch. The intent was to do our next release off this branch and then kill it. Subsequent releases would come from the trunk (or branches thereof). Unfortunately plans changed,

RE: ignore property not ignoring...

2014-01-13 Thread Bob Archer
From: Edward Ned Harvey (svn4) [mailto:s...@nedharvey.com] So I have to just duplicate the svn:ignore and svn:global-ignores properties everywhere that anything needs to be ignored. Sorry, clarification: In tortoise, I check the properties of some directory, and it shows svn:ignore

RE: How to change the svn password by the user?

2014-01-09 Thread Bob Archer
Hi, I am from PTC Software, Pune. I wanted a normal user(not admin) to change his credentials in SVN. Can you please help with this? Thanks, -Narayana Reddy. I would suggest using Subversion Edge by Collabnet. It is free, and bundles svn, apache and a web based management tool. Users

RE: Repository Structure Question

2014-01-03 Thread Bob Archer
I'm part of a small development team (currently 4). We have two applications used in-house that consist of about 1900 source files. The two applications share about 1880 of the files in common, and there are only about 20 different between them. For a lot of complicated reasons I won't go

RE: help with svn:ignore

2013-12-12 Thread Bob Archer
I am using Subversion 1.6.11-10 on Red Hat Enterprise 5.8. The repository is strictly for RANCID and I recently renamed several files in my repository with the svn move command. After making these changes I found that I can no longer see the file history for the renamed files in my repository

RE: Update-Only Checkout Enhancement

2013-12-11 Thread Bob Archer
Yes, I understand the export function. I want functionality for release management into test and production environments. For these environments I have a few requirements: Files in these environments will NEVER be edited For new releases I will need to perform an update to

RE: Update-Only Checkout Enhancement

2013-12-11 Thread Bob Archer
On 11.12.2013 17:21, Mark Kneisler wrote: I think making the pristine files optional would work for me. Here’s an idea. Instead of having pristine copies of all files, how about adding to the pristine directory only when a file is changed? You know, that's a great idea!

RE: Update-Only Checkout Enhancement

2013-12-11 Thread Bob Archer
On 11.12.2013 20:19, Bob Archer wrote: On 11.12.2013 17:21, Mark Kneisler wrote: I think making the pristine files optional would work for me. Here’s an idea. Instead of having pristine copies of all files, how about adding to the pristine directory only when a file

RE: Why does `svnversion -c` give me a range?

2013-12-04 Thread Bob Archer
Hi Folks, I would like to include the svn revision number in my project's version info but I am confused by the results of svnversion. I want the version number of a tagged tree to always be the same (i.e. the last commit to the tag) but if the tag is to be rebuilt using a fresh checkout

RE: Hardware requirements for windows subversion

2013-12-03 Thread Bob Archer
Hi Edward, Thank you for your response. I have a .net site the file size is 2 GB. There are only 2 developers working on this project remotely. Do I need windows server or windows 7? What kind of hardware, RAM, diskspace do I need? Do I still need Apache server? Where can i get Subversion

RE: Branch/switch/merge question

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Archer
I've read the visual guide, the subversion book, I've used subversion for years, but never really collaborated much with other people on actual software source code the way it's intended to be used, until recently.  So it's only recently that I'm making use of branch/merge, and I'd like to

RE: Looking into using Subversion

2013-11-18 Thread Bob Archer
It seems pretty dangerous to me to just push dev changes to production. I suggest you have a build server, the watches for commits, runs unit tests and then deploys to staging. Once staging is tested you can push to production. But, yea, each dev should have their own working environment. It

RE: Migrating ClearCase data to Subversion

2013-11-15 Thread Bob Archer
Did you try this tool. It is what I used to migrate from PVCS. http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/svn_importer.php BOb From: Olivier Antoine [mailto:oliviera201...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:47 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Migrating ClearCase data to

RE: How to determine subversion repository format

2013-11-01 Thread Bob Archer
I am getting this svn client message: The working copy at repository is too old (format 29) to work with client version '1.8.4 (r1534716)' (expects format 31). You need to upgrade the working copy first. I am interested in knowing where format 29 is stored. My searches have lead me to

RE: not able to access repository form remote server

2013-10-31 Thread Bob Archer
I installed win32svn in remote server which i can acees directly. I am trying to create subversion repository mirror in this remote server using svnsync through command line and the actual repo is located in different remote server.I am able to access this repo(from diff server) from SVNSLIK,

RE: Windows file:/// URL format for svnsync

2013-10-31 Thread Bob Archer
Good point… our just use svnrdump to dump the repo… then you can take that file, load it into a repo on another machine and then sync that to google. From: Bert Huijben [mailto:b...@qqmail.nl] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:02 PM To: 'David Goldsmith' Cc: users@subversion.apache.org

RE: Windows file:/// URL format for svnsync

2013-10-31 Thread Bob Archer
[mailto:eulergaussriem...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:25 PM To: Bob Archer Subject: Re: Windows file:/// URL format for svnsync They used to have restrictions--for security--on what kind of executable code you could upload, but I think that was (is?) just for Google docs; AFA

RE: Windows file:/// URL format for svnsync

2013-10-31 Thread Bob Archer
Are you sure you are specifying a REPOSITORY and not a working copy??? BOb From: David Goldsmith [mailto:eulergaussriem...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:17 PM To: Bob Archer Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Windows file:/// URL format for svnsync OK, now we're going

RE: Access Problem with Subversion

2013-10-22 Thread Bob Archer
Hi all! I have a urgent problem with our subversion. I need to do a dump file, but I always get the answer, that I do not have access! But my user is administrator... Can you please help me? I really need this export! At this point, it simply a file access issue. This really has

RE: svn mergeinfo and svn merge - questions

2013-10-17 Thread Bob Archer
Hi All We are using 1.6 SVN. We like to svn merge from our branch A to trunk. We have been diligent in svn merge from trunk to A. These svn merges from trunk to branch A also include --record-only merges too, in addition to regular merges. Development on branch A has stopped. Now we like

Reverting an ADD status file after an update tree conflict deletes the file

2013-10-14 Thread Bob Archer
Perform the following steps... 1.Edit a file in a working copy 2.Delete that file in the repository (with the repo browser) 3.Update your working copy 4.Edit the tree conflict and specify keep working copy 5.The edited file now shows as an add 6.Revert the working copy

RE: Reverting an ADD status file after an update tree conflict deletes the file

2013-10-14 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: Bert, But, this isn't a merge it is an update. If I revert the add I lose all the changes I made in step 1 of my steps below. I might have made a few hundred changes. Granted, I probably shouldn't do the revert

RE: Reverting an ADD status file after an update tree conflict deletes the file

2013-10-14 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: Bert, But, this isn't a merge it is an update. If I revert the add I lose all the changes I made in step 1 of my steps below. I

RE: svn 1.8.3 on windows often crashes

2013-10-14 Thread Bob Archer
W dniu 2013-10-04 15:04, Ivan Zhakov pisze: On 4 October 2013 17:00, Karol Szkudlarek ka...@mikronika.com.pl wrote: W dniu 2013-10-04 14:50, Ivan Zhakov pisze: On 4 October 2013 16:44, Ivan Zhakov i...@visualsvn.com wrote: I'm trying to use the latest 1.8.3 64-bit version of svn

RE: SVN Blame Returns Corrupt Data

2013-10-11 Thread Bob Archer
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: I assume he was asking how to fix the blame. Cause, sure, he could open the file, convert it back to UTF-8 with CRLF line endings... and commit it... of course, now blame is going to show him on every line, since he just

RE: SVN Blame Returns Corrupt Data

2013-10-11 Thread Bob Archer
On 11.10.2013 15:58, Bob Archer wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: I assume he was asking how to fix the blame. Cause, sure, he could open the file, convert it back to UTF-8 with CRLF line endings... and commit it... of course, now blame

RE: SVN Blame Returns Corrupt Data

2013-10-11 Thread Bob Archer
On 11.10.2013 16:55, Bob Archer wrote: On 11.10.2013 15:58, Bob Archer wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: I assume he was asking how to fix the blame. Cause, sure, he could open the file, convert it back to UTF-8 with CRLF line endings

RE: SVN Blame Returns Corrupt Data

2013-10-11 Thread Bob Archer
On 11.10.2013 17:19, Bob Archer wrote: On 11.10.2013 16:55, Bob Archer wrote: On 11.10.2013 15:58, Bob Archer wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: I assume he was asking how to fix the blame. Cause, sure, he could open the file, convert

RE: SVN Blame Returns Corrupt Data

2013-10-10 Thread Bob Archer
On Oct 10, 2013, at 11:29, T.J. Perovich tjperov...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble running svn blame on a particular file. It's returning garbage. In TortoiseBlame: 3341 TJP ÿþO 3341 TJP In the command line: 3341TJP ■O 3341TJP The file is 10.1k

RE: SVN Blame Returns Corrupt Data

2013-10-10 Thread Bob Archer
Guten Tag T.J. Perovich, am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2013 um 21:17 schrieben Sie: Any idea how to go about fixing it elegantly? Simply convert it back using your method of choice, Notepad++ should be able to handle this. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning I assume he was

RE: tree conflict in merge after deleting and re-adding files

2013-10-09 Thread Bob Archer
Hi All, TortoiseSVN 1.6.16, Build 21511 - 64 Bit , 2011/06/01 19:00:35 Subversion 1.6.17, apr 1.3.12 apr-utils 1.3.12 neon 0.29.6 OpenSSL 1.0.0d 8 Feb 2011 zlib 1.2.5 We have a problem. We have a trunk and a branch, and wanted to merge changes from branch to trunk. Due to some heavier

RE: Breaking up a monolothic repository

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Archer
Am 10.09.2013 19:45, schrieb Thomas Harold: When we moved from a monolithic repository to per-client repositories a few years ago, we went ahead and: - Rebased the paths up one or two levels (old system was something like monolithicrepo/[a-z]/[client directories]/[job directory]) so

RE: Copy changes from one branch to another

2013-09-30 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Grierson, David david.grier...@bskyb.com wrote: Um ... why? Well, the way has come a long way and to reproduce it would take me a lot of time so i would please you and the others to just take it as given. Wouldn't this mean that trunk and branch A are

RE: Copy changes from one branch to another

2013-09-30 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Andrew Reedick andrew.reed...@cbeyond.net wrote: Post commit script that deletes branch A and then recreates branch A from trunk, i.e. make branch A effectively a tag. Since the delete and copy are server side commands, no workspace is needed to make it

RE: Shared branch vs single branch

2013-09-23 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: It really depends. I think all work for a specific release should be done in a single branch/folder. Many people follow the stable trunk model. In this model you generally do all work on trunk and then branch

RE: Shared branch vs single branch

2013-09-23 Thread Bob Archer
What are some of the pros/cons of using a single/shared branch versus the private developer branch? We are having an internal debate within the team where the idea of a single/shared branch was proposed in reaction to two specific issues: 1. In the merge to trunk from individual developer

RE: Push ?

2013-09-16 Thread Bob Archer
Guten Tag Dan White, am Sonntag, 15. September 2013 um 17:32 schrieben Sie: Searching for a solution found one possibility: Check out a copy on the subversion server and then rsync to the final client destination. How is rsync more secure than accessing the client using SSH and use svn

RE: Breaking up a monolothic repository

2013-09-10 Thread Bob Archer
-Original Message- From: t...@elba.apache.org [mailto:t...@elba.apache.org] On Behalf Of Trent W. Buck Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:38 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Breaking up a monolothic repository Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com writes: On Mon,

RE: how to simply : $svn update ?

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Archer
I do '$svn status' and get that I am at a certain revision Type 'svn help' for usage. cpu:/dirsvn update At revision 32933. This leads me to believe that I am fully sync'd with the repo since it pulled nothing back. --- I do svn status and see something surprising cpu:/dirsvn

RE: Switching

2013-08-22 Thread Bob Archer
-Original Message- From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:21 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Switching How would you like Subversion to work in your case? From my understanding it breaks down to something

RE: Strange behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Bob Archer
Thanks Edwin, That's exactly what I am trying to do. I was looking for a way for the tool to accomplish this. I'd be just as glad if someone tells me it is impossible, which I suspect it may be. Otherwise there are over 200 manual operations required just to create a repository. The

RE: Strange behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Bob Archer
page version of the redbook: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html Here's infor about runtime configuration: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.confarea BOb JM -Original Message- From: Bob Archer [mailto:bob.arc...@amsi.com] Sent: Monday

RE: RESOLVED: SVN copy that worked in 1.8.0 now fails with (424 FailedDependency)

2013-08-07 Thread Bob Archer
Brenden Walker bkwal...@drbsystems.com writes: svn: E175002: Adding directory failed: COPY on /svn/Development/!svn/rvr/7020/Trunk/Projects/SiteWatch (424 Failed Dependency) Turned out that another developer had locks on several files. Confirmed that was the problem.

RE: SVN performance -URGENT

2013-08-01 Thread Bob Archer
Hello Team, We are using subversion 1.7 which is hosted in linux and apache is being used along with this. The linux is very powerful but we are facing a major issue during the SVN operation from the windows system. Windows system : Microsoft windows XP 2.85 GB of Ram tortoisesvn 1.7

RE: SVN performance -URGENT

2013-08-01 Thread Bob Archer
Please stop top posting. I tried in the same server where svn is hosted but there also it is taking too much of time I e it is taking 110 mins to checkout the 2200 Mbytes of data(in Windows it took 143 mins). I have not tried the command line option.Could you please tell how to do it from

RE: SVN performance -URGENT

2013-08-01 Thread Bob Archer
different? From: kmra...@rockwellcollins.com [mailto:kmra...@rockwellcollins.com] Sent: 01 August 2013 15:20 To: Bob Archer Cc: Somashekarappa, Anup (CWM-NR); users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: SVN performance -URGENT Bob Archer bob.arc

RE: check out deleted folder

2013-07-24 Thread Bob Archer
Hi there, my situation is as follows: there's a large svn repository svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/ I only work with the subdirectory svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/old_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with such that I used to check it out with svn co

RE: check out deleted folder

2013-07-24 Thread Bob Archer
Hi there, my situation is as follows: there's a large svn repository svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/ I only work with the subdirectory svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/old_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with such that I used to check it out with svn co

RE: Question about subversion

2013-06-26 Thread Bob Archer
Hi there. I have a question about subversion. I think the previous response was quite correct, it mostly all depends. I have a theory on what files should not be on SVN and I would like you to tell me if you agree. If you dont agree can you tell me why please. If you see more files that

RE: please unsubscribe me from the list

2013-06-19 Thread Bob Archer
It’s users-unsubscribe … BOb From: Alexander Ivanenko [mailto:kito...@mail.ru] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:19 AM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: please unsubscribe me from the list Please unsubscribe me from the list,

RE: Ancestrally Related Error Message

2013-06-17 Thread Bob Archer
Hello, Code for a new development effort was imported into a developer's branch. Now we want merge his changes to trunk (which is currently empty). I tried the merge from both the command line and the Tortoise GUI and keep running into the ...must be ancestrally related... message.I also

RE: Build on Pre-Commit

2013-05-24 Thread Bob Archer
Hello, I know this has been asked already, but we would really like to reject any attempt to commit files which would break a project in trunk. The decision to reject the committed files is based on the result of the building process of the project the files being committed belong to. I

RE: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-21 Thread Bob Archer
On 05/18/2013 08:33 PM, David Chapman wrote: On 5/18/2013 12:01 PM, Zé wrote: On 05/18/2013 07:16 PM, David Chapman wrote: You are pretty insistent that there is One True Way to use branches in development. No, I'm stating that if all a SCM does is track changes made to the

RE: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-21 Thread Bob Archer
Guten Tag Zé, am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2013 um 10:20 schrieben Sie: You are confused. This discussion is about how subversion lacks any support for branching, which is quite obvious to anyone who understands and acknowledges that all subversion does is track revision changes to a file

RE: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-21 Thread Bob Archer
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: You are confused. This discussion is about how subversion lacks any support for branching, which is quite obvious to anyone who understands and acknowledges that all subversion does is track revision changes

RE: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-21 Thread Bob Archer
.. snip You keep saying svn doesn't support branches yet I use branches every day. While there is no way to list branches it would be possible. I think the current implementation records the parent path in the branch, but not vice versa... I assume svn doesn't do this because it

RE: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-21 Thread Bob Archer
Guten Tag Andreas Krey, am Samstag, 18. Mai 2013 um 22:41 schrieben Sie: You mean like 'I expect tags to be immutable out of the box, and have the VCS not modify them with perfectly normal operations, at least not without adding -f or something to them'? This sounds like Subversion

RE: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Archer
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:50:12PM +0100, Zé wrote: You're missing the point. The point is that subversion could be even better than what it already is if it actually supported branches. OK, I would also like Subversion to get better, so we agree here. Now, what kinds of improvements

RE: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Archer
On 05/13/2013 10:04 AM, Bob Archer wrote: What I don't understand is why someone argues about how git does something is better yet uses svn. Use the tool that works for you, or works the way you expect a tool to work. Oh, I'm sure if we tried we could all think up plenty of reasons why

RE: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Andreas Krey a.k...@gmx.de wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013 11:32:13 +, Les Mikesell wrote: ... Maybe it is just my misconception, but I've always thought of the difference between svn and git as being that svn conceptually tracks complete revisions

RE: trunk naming best practice question

2013-05-07 Thread Bob Archer
For the trunk, what's the common practice to name a version of the trunk? We have a trunk and it's not ready for branching. We also feel that we need a more specific name for the trunk than what we have now called version=trunk. However, we can't be specific since we don't know what the

RE: Blame/annotate not good enough...

2013-04-24 Thread Bob Archer
On Apr 23, 2013, at 15:56, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote on Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:45:49 -0500: 3. If you want the actual source code in the repository to contain these comments, then you're talking about several scripts: one that the developers must invoke in place of svn

RE: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Bob Archer
all those files? If so, that is something that you want to happen. Once that is done the first time, all your merge info will be in the root folder and you won't see this any more. (Stop top posting!!!) Thanks all sincerely On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Bob Archer bob.arc

RE: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Bob Archer
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: Hi Johan, Bob and all We took your suggestion and it still fails in that 1- when we try to merge again at the root level (goals: a- to move subtree merge done previously to the working copy root level so

RE: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Bob Archer
-Original Message- From: Z W [mailto:mpc8...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:26 PM To: Bob Archer Cc: Johan Corveleyn; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: merge using same revision number - quick question On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Bob Archer bob.arc

RE: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-19 Thread Bob Archer
Hi All We have a revision that contains a few changed files on the trunk: r345 /usr/ext/a.java /usr/ext/b.java We like to merge this a branch working copy. Can we perform multiple merge svn with the same revision number ? We have a reason to do that; We know it doesnt make sense in

RE: SVN Speed issue

2013-03-27 Thread Bob Archer
I am handling SVN operations in my company. Today we find that SVN Speed is too much slow. VisualSVN Server : 2.5.7 Tortoise SVN : 1.6 Is that a question? Slow where? Client? 1.7 shows to be much faster for many client side operations. BOb

RE: SvnServe with Windows AD Authendication

2013-03-27 Thread Bob Archer
Hi, I'm not a Windows guy and am not familiar with the services that Windows 2003 Server provides. Could you explain in more detail in what ways you want Subversion to integrate with it? Right now we are using svn internal authentication( passwd and svnserve.conf) Instead Of we are

RE: SvnServe with Windows AD Authendication

2013-03-27 Thread Bob Archer
Support Team. From: Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com To: Krishnamoorthi Gopal krishnamoor...@vernal.is, Ryan Schmidt subversion- 20...@ryandesign.com Cc: Joseba Ercilla Olabarri joseba.erci...@gmail.com, Mark Phippard markp...@gmail.com, users@subversion.apache.org users

RE: Need to restructure repo folders: Problem: SVN COPY is recursive

2013-03-15 Thread Bob Archer
Hi folks, We are changing our folder structure in the SVN repository and need to map content from old folders to the new folders.  I was investigating the use of SVN COPY but the command is recursive, which leads to problems for us. For example, let's say our structure looks like:

RE: Can't synchronize branch with trunk

2013-03-01 Thread Bob Archer
Hi I've encountered a strange problem, hopefully someone can help me here. Below is a diagram of our repo -trunk--mod ABC-+ + | |  |   

RE: Merge, reintegrate, and merge with tree conflicts

2013-02-26 Thread Bob Archer
So what is the proper way to continuously perform the workflow we're trying to do - that is pull changes from origin path into branch, push changes to origin branch from branch, and repeat. Using bidirectional merge (without reintegrate) seems create severe merge conflicts. You can keep

RE: Merge, reintegrate, and merge with tree conflicts

2013-02-26 Thread Bob Archer
So what is the proper way to continuously perform the workflow we're trying to do - that is pull changes from origin path into branch, push changes to origin branch from branch, and repeat. Using bidirectional merge (without reintegrate) seems create severe merge conflicts. You

RE: Different commit message shown by SVN for the same commit

2013-02-20 Thread Bob Archer
Dear all, I am not sure if this is a bug or I am missing something. But I just found a very unusual situation. Please refer to the screenshot below: Both parts in the above screenshot refer to the same revision in the same repository. The first part from the screenshot shows the

RE: Tagging svn:externals

2013-02-20 Thread Bob Archer
Some clients like TortoiseSVN have a feature that will pin the external to the revision you are copping when doing the tag. Otherwise, you have to do it manually before or after you create your tag. From: C M [mailto:cmanalys...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:29 PM To:

RE: Different commit message shown by SVN for the same commit

2013-02-20 Thread Bob Archer
Dear all, I am not sure if this is a bug or I am missing something. But I just found a very unusual situation. Please refer to the screenshot below: Both parts in the above screenshot refer to the same revision in the same repository. The first part from the screenshot shows

RE: svn copy and history - quick question

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Archer
Hi All We are SVN newbies here. We plan to do an svn copy (of a branch to another trunk). Does svn copy command copies all the history of the file and folder revisoins too ? Thanks The simple answer is... yes. BOb

RE: software distribution with subversion

2013-01-31 Thread Bob Archer
I am faced with a problem where I need to distribute a directory containing about 60 GB worth of software on a Linux file server to about 100 systems. The software must be localized on those systems and not shared out over NFS. On a regular basis, software may be added or removed from the

RE: Commit failed Error after upgrading 1.7.7

2012-11-13 Thread Bob Archer
are using LDAP and running Edge on a Windows 2008 server. Are there any plans to release a new version of Edge that will resolve this issue. It is a minor annoyance but my users freak out when they see it. Thanks. On Nov 12, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 12

RE: Commit failed Error after upgrading 1.7.7

2012-11-13 Thread Bob Archer
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: If you are using LDAP and the server is on Windows there is a bug in Apache 2.2.23 that can cause an HTTP 500 on the first authenticated request for a user. See: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi

RE: Commit failed Error after upgrading 1.7.7

2012-11-12 Thread Bob Archer
I recently upgraded Subversion edge to 3.2.0-3352.100 which gave me Subversion 1.7.7. Since then every now and then when I commit I get the following error: Commit Commit failed (details follow): Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to POST

RE: Commit failed Error after upgrading 1.7.7

2012-11-12 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Bob Archer bob.arc...@amsi.com wrote: I recently upgraded Subversion edge to 3.2.0-3352.100 which gave me Subversion 1.7.7. Since then every now and then when I commit I get the following error: Commit Commit failed (details follow

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