Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-12 Thread Dave Tingling
Hi Bob, Does the same team us more than one repository? Or is each repo used by different people and teams? Some members of this team do work with other repositories. But this small team (7-10 active devs) is the only one that touches this problematic repository. Is the update funky whe

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-12 Thread Dave Tingling
Thorsten Schöning wrote: I would try to test a bit: Take a dev where the file never was freaky and let him produce small changes which are committable, e.g. add a newline at the end of the file and remove it or stuff like that. But it should be always the same changes. We will. Let me make sure I

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-12 Thread Dave Tingling
Thanks for those tips Konstantin. There are about 16 developers. Is there anything I can look at on the server side to determine whether such bad directory copy/moves have been done, and perhaps by whom? On the server: what protocol you are using to access the repository and commit the files

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Tingling
Daniel Shahaf wrote: Which tells me your repository was created by Subversion 1.4. Nothing unexpected... I've learned that clients update their working-copy layout to whatever that client is built for. Considering http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1364618/how-do-i-determine-svn-working-c

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Tingling
Thorsten Schöning wrote: Guten Tag Dave Tingling, am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2011 um 17:50 schrieben Sie: And this behaviour is reproducible, meaning that every time the file x is deleted from the local working copy of dev N on each and every update the newly created file is freaky? Is it freaky on

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Tingling
Thanks Daniel. Results from in the repo dir on the server:: [dt@s..]$ cat format 5 [dt@s..]$ cat db/fs-type fsfs [dt@s..]$ cat db/format 2 Daniel Shahaf wrote: Dave Tingling wrote on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:38:08 -0400: I'm not sure how to check what repo format is on the server, t

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Tingling
Thorsten Schöning wrote: Guten Tag Dave Tingling, am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2011 um 17:50 schrieben Sie: 1) - Developer A: adds, edits and commits a file X, 2) - Developer A: later, again edits and commits file X, 3) - Developer A: still later, again edits and commits file X, 4) - Developer N

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Tingling
Daniel Shahaf wrote: fsfs or bdb? Tried 1.5.7 / 1.6.16 server? Dave Tingling wrote on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:50:58 -0400: Hi List, We administer subversion (v 1.4.2, r22196 on CentOS 5.5) for a development company, and have over 150 active repositories, but we are not subversion experts

Re: Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Tingling
Campbell Allan wrote: On Wednesday 11 May 2011, Dave Tingling wrote: Hi List, We administer subversion (v 1.4.2, r22196 on CentOS 5.5) for a development company, and have over 150 active repositories, but we are not subversion experts. We are experiencing an issue with just one particular

Random files being "reverted" on one repository

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Tingling
Hi List, We administer subversion (v 1.4.2, r22196 on CentOS 5.5) for a development company, and have over 150 active repositories, but we are not subversion experts. We are experiencing an issue with just one particular repository. When programmers run an update against this one repository