On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:32:36PM +0100, James Sharpe wrote:
2008/5/24 Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>:
plays havoc with working copies if a new branch with the previous name is then created again as subversion doesn't detect the move. This is
I think this has changed recently (ehm, I mean in 1.5): * 'svn update' now sometimes copies or moves local files, for efficiency
Does it work in this case?:
Hard to say as it requires a network sniffer on my fast LAN (I don't notice any delay) so I don't care. Nevertheless I assume it.
svn co http://foo/branch/release (some one else moves branch release to be release_last then creates a new branch release) svn up
It certainly didn't last I tried it with 1.4. (It's also unclear what the expected behaviour should be: should svn up now retrieve release_last or release?)
Calling "svn up" from the current directory would update all subdirectories. So release/ would be deleted and release_last/ created. After this the new release/ is fetched. If "svn up" is called from inside release/ nothing would happen, as the content of this directory (with URL .../release_last@HEAD) was not changed. It's really trivial. You may find renaming obscure but I was forced to rename my trunk/ already 2 or 3 times because my colleagues work against Subversion and provide from time to time a new "current" tree (handled independently of Subversion, but some patches from it merged in) based on a very outdated branch. I try to educate and think I won the battle recently, lets see ... It worked well in Subversion (apart from the fact that I found a few bugs in it this way such as the "checksum mismatch" bug which is already fixed after I was able to reproduce it with a small example).
I don't consider it as static, but this isn't the only gripe I have against subversion. I've worked with subversion extensively and have now moved all my personal code projects to use git as I find it far more usable (the only downside I currently see in distributed systems
Do you have experiences with git-svn? Maybe by importing Boost's code? Jens