Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-12 Thread Simon
We have work directories shared between many physical machines here (via sshfs, nfs, etc). We also use subversion as our configuration management system for source files. When a newer client ends up on on of the work machines, it automatically (and silently) upgrades the wc metadata format of a

RE: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-12 Thread Jeremy Mordkoff
[mailto:tzueskj...@snkmail.com] Sent: Mon 4/12/2010 9:17 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives We have work directories shared between many physical machines here (via sshfs, nfs, etc). We also use subversion as our configuration management

Re: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeremy Mordkoff wrote: I second that. I support fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (and soon 12), various ubuntu releases, plus windows XP, Vista, and Win7, and Mac OS 10.4, 10.5. When one of them upgrades, it causes me to scramble to build and deploy upgrades to the others. But working copies should r

Re: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-13 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Simon wrote on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 at 01:17 -: > I think correct behaviour here is that the client should at least > prompt the user to ask if it should upgrade the wc metadata format > before messing with the working copy. > > Failing that, is there some way of locking a working copy to > a part

Re: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-13 Thread Simon
On 13/04/2010, at 18:46 , Daniel Shahaf d.s-at-daniel.shahaf.name | subversion users list| wrote: Simon wrote on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 at 01:17 -: I think correct behaviour here is that the client should at least prompt the user to ask if it should upgrade the wc metadata format before messing

RE: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-13 Thread Jeremy Mordkoff
> Jeremy Mordkoff wrote: > > I second that. I support fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (and soon 12), various > > ubuntu releases, plus windows XP, Vista, and Win7, and Mac OS 10.4, > > 10.5. When one of them upgrades, it causes me to scramble to build and > > deploy upgrades to the others. > > > > But work

Re: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeremy Mordkoff wrote: I second that. I support fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (and soon 12), various ubuntu releases, plus windows XP, Vista, and Win7, and Mac OS 10.4, 10.5. When one of them upgrades, it causes me to scramble to build and deploy upgrades to the others. But working copies should

RE: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives

2010-04-13 Thread Jeremy Mordkoff
Jeremy Mordkoff wrote: >>> I second that. I support fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (and soon 12), > various >>> ubuntu releases, plus windows XP, Vista, and Win7, and Mac OS 10.4, >>> 10.5. When one of them upgrades, it causes me to scramble to build > and >>> deploy upgrades to the others. >>> >> But wor