Hi,
I am trying to find out if some new behavior we see with version 1.7 is
considered a bug (I would).
What we try to do is assembling a larger piece of software from tens or
hundreds of repositories. In that, checkouts might also live within
checkouts of other svn repositories. We usually check
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 06:39:27AM -0500, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> My theory is that the checkout of the contained repository tries to look
> into .svn of the containing repository, and finds it 'currently used'.
You mean "working copy" (the copy being checked out), not "repository"
(the database w
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 05:44:24PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> You mean "working copy" (the copy being checked out), not "repository"
> (the database we check out from).
I do, I am sorry for my lax words.
> I would argue that you were relying on an implementation detail.
> Nowhere does t
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 10:56:03AM -0500, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> As to the original problem: is there any chance the 'nested' checkout
> could be made to work? Subversion could just ignore any upper-level .svn
> directories. What is done here is a fresh checkout. There is no need to
> check anythi
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 06:34:09PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> By design, there are many cases where the working copy code ends up
> searching the directory hierarchy upwards for a wc.db database in
> a .svn directory.
Does it stop once it finds one, or does it continue to search further
up? I
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 01:39:33PM -0500, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 06:34:09PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > By design, there are many cases where the working copy code ends up
> > searching the directory hierarchy upwards for a wc.db database in
> > a .svn directory.
>
>
Hi Stefan
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 11:18:15PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> This patch is sufficient to make it work in my testing.
> Can you confirm?
I can. Thanks a lot!
I downloaded the source of 1.8.0 and compiled that (Debian Wheezy plus a
new copy of serf because I wanted to test using ht
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:51:54PM -0500, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> Would this now be a good time to open a ticket to try to get this in a
> future release version?
No need, I'll try to take care of this fix myself.
Thanks for your report!
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:03:30AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:51:54PM -0500, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> > Would this now be a good time to open a ticket to try to get this in a
> > future release version?
>
> No need, I'll try to take care of this fix myself.
> Thanks
