RE: Problem with external file

2017-06-15 Thread Peter Willis
>That would be Debian Sarge. Debian backports has svn 1.4 ... too old, I'm >afraid. > >> I could try to build SVN using source, but I have my doubts. > >It's not inconceivable that you could build 1.6, but getting all the >dependencies lined up could be a pain on Sarge, indeed. > > I'll just kee

Re: Problem with external file

2017-06-15 Thread Branko Čibej
On 15.06.2017 23:41, Peter Willis wrote: >> Really? Version 1.1.4? Because support for file externals was added in >> version 1.6.0, so I'm not really surprised your checkout fails. :) >> >> Perhaps you could consider upgrading your client? >> >> -- Brane > O.K. thanks that makes sense. > Out of d

RE: Problem with external file

2017-06-15 Thread Peter Willis
>Really? Version 1.1.4? Because support for file externals was added in version >1.6.0, so I'm not really surprised your checkout fails. :) > >Perhaps you could consider upgrading your client? > >-- Brane O.K. thanks that makes sense. Out of date package of SVN. The failed client is on an embedd

Re: Problem with external file

2017-06-15 Thread Branko Čibej
On 15.06.2017 23:21, Peter Willis wrote: >> Can you show the output of 'svn --version' on that computer where it doesn't >> work? It looks like your Subversion was compiled without support for the >> svn:// protocol (which would be really strange). >> >> -- Brane > Yes, the output of that is: > >

RE: Problem with external file

2017-06-15 Thread Peter Willis
>Can you show the output of 'svn --version' on that computer where it doesn't >work? It looks like your Subversion was compiled without support for the >svn:// protocol (which would be really strange). > >-- Brane Yes, the output of that is: svn --version svn, version 1.1.4 (r13838) compiled

Re: Problem with external file

2017-06-15 Thread Branko Čibej
On 15.06.2017 22:35, Peter Willis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am having an issue with an external (pointing to a file) included in > one of my projects. > > > > I have a single external in my repository that points to a file. > > > > On my windows desktop I can check out the directory contain

Problem with external file

2017-06-15 Thread Peter Willis
Hello, I am having an issue with an external (pointing to a file) included in one of my projects. I have a single external in my repository that points to a file. On my windows desktop I can check out the directory containing the external just fine. The code checks out and the external

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:14 AM, wrote: >>> >> In subversion's view a copy is a branch so any distinction is strictly >> your own convention. Likewise for tags, except that there is a >> generally accepted convention of not committing changes after a tag >> copy. Do you have additional conven

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-16 Thread dlellis
> > > > If a project doesn't want to accept a change, they "fork" to a new > > "history". The tool does this with a svn cp > > and an update to the svn:externals property. They now > > lose sight of what the other project commits after that fork though. The > > backend of where the file is sto

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:09 PM, wrote: > > If a project doesn't want to accept a change, they "fork" to a new > "history". The tool does this with a svn cp > and an update to the svn:externals property. They now > lose sight of what the other project commits after that fork though. The > ba

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread dlellis
> >> The commit won't complete you'll get an out of date error. > > > > That's right, isn't it. It'd be no different than two folks trying to > > commit the same file around the same time, right (one would get an out of > > date error)? > > Right, but when working on the trunk explicitly you'd e

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:14 PM, wrote: > >> > I'd actually expect it to be pretty confusing if you had multiple >> > people committing changes based from different back-rev pegged >> > references anywhere near the same time frame. Does your external >> > 'notify about new versions' tool help wi

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread dlellis
Ben Reser wrote on 08/15/2013 02:57:23 PM: > On 8/15/13 1:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I'd actually expect it to be pretty confusing if you had multiple > > people committing changes based from different back-rev pegged > > references anywhere near the same time frame. Does your external > >

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Ben Reser
On 8/15/13 1:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'd actually expect it to be pretty confusing if you had multiple > people committing changes based from different back-rev pegged > references anywhere near the same time frame. Does your external > 'notify about new versions' tool help with that? Don't

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, wrote: > >> >> I'd actually expect it to be pretty confusing if you had multiple >> people committing changes based from different back-rev pegged >> references anywhere near the same time frame. Does your external >> 'notify about new versions' tool help with th

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread dlellis
> > > > It commits a new revision of what the file external pointed to - pretty > > handy. If you are pegged, it will not automagically update your pegged > > revision (as I'd expect), so unless you are on the HEAD or update your peg > > to what just committed, an update will revert your WC bac

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:03 PM, wrote: > >> > We do want to modify in place. Copying back creates an additionalstep >> > that > >> > is already managed quite well by SVN with externals. >> >> I've never done that with a file external - where does the commit go? > > > It commits a new revision o

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:03 PM, wrote: ... > The whole discussion has centered on an attempted work around for the > connection caching that doesn't currently occur for externals. If that can > happen, I think we'd be very content. We're accepting of some performance > issues. There was an XK

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:24 PM, wrote: > >> >> With more complexity comes more bugs and process missteps. We're >> >> really >> > striving to keep things as simple as possible. We're fundamentally >> > accepting of update times going from 2 seconds to 2 minutes. Its harder >> > when 2 minutes

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread dlellis
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:03 PM, wrote: > > > >> With more complexity comes more bugs and process missteps. We're really > > striving to keep things as simple as possible. We're fundamentally > > accepting of update times going from 2 seconds to 2 minutes. Its harder > > when 2 minutes bec

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:03 PM, wrote: > >> With more complexity comes more bugs and process missteps. We're really > striving to keep things as simple as possible. We're fundamentally > accepting of update times going from 2 seconds to 2 minutes. Its harder > when 2 minutes becomes 20 minute

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread dlellis
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > > > >> But regardless of how you identify the target > >> file, there shouldn't be any effective difference between copying a > >> version into your directory or using a file external as long as you > >> don't modify it in place and commit it back - s

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > >> But regardless of how you identify the target >> file, there shouldn't be any effective difference between copying a >> version into your directory or using a file external as long as you >> don't modify it in place and commit it back - something you

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread dlellis
> > The challenge I then see on this is one of finding all instances of foo.c. > > If you have foo.c copied/forked fifty times to different projects, each of > > which has branched a couple of times, how do you programmatically find all > > different instances of foo.c (to let a developer choose

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:12 AM, wrote: > >> > Once you copy, you break the link. If you were to make a change to the >> > copy, no one else would then see it. >> >> No one else would see it with externals either, except that you >> wrote a custom tool to analyze the externals, see if a newer >

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-15 Thread dlellis
> > Once you copy, you break the link. If you were to make a change to the > > copy, no one else would then see it. > > No one else would see it with externals either, except that you > wrote a custom tool to analyze the externals, see if a newer > revision of the original exists, and show t

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 14, 2013, at 17:55, dlel...@rockwellcollins.com wrote: >> I don't follow how each project 'sees' that fixes have been made - you >> shouldn't see that through a pegged external. > > We have a tool that mimics explorer. It queries the repo for the latest > revision on each file external (

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread dlellis
> > > > No HEAD revisions, all files are pegged. > > > > For example, if everyone is linked to a common file (foo.c, revision 20, > > project A "pedigree") and a bug is fixed, each project will see that a fix > > has been made. Each project has to make a decision: to remain on the > > current re

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:14 PM, wrote: > >> >> So the point is to intentionally pull the HEAD revision of a whole >> bunch of files together where each is located arbitrarily and can >> change independently? I guess that's about the opposite of the way I >> think of version control, so I can'

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread dlellis
Les Mikesell wrote on 08/14/2013 02:49:38 PM: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:23 PM, wrote: > > > > Now, in our case, we do stuff for aircraft,... wouldn't it be nice to > > maintain living pedigrees with all similar models of aircraft? Fix an issue > > in one place and advertise it to all the o

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:23 PM, wrote: > > Now, in our case, we do stuff for aircraft,... wouldn't it be nice to > maintain living pedigrees with all similar models of aircraft? Fix an issue > in one place and advertise it to all the others. File externals give you > this. It fits very well i

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Reser
On 8/14/13 12:04 PM, dlel...@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > Kevin M Radke/CedarRapids/RockwellCollins wrote on 08/14/2013 11:52:44 AM: >> dlel...@rockwellcollins.com wrote on 08/14/2013 01:13:52 PM: > We're ok with _some_ performance cost. Also, it might be valuable to > the SVN community to underst

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread dlellis
Les Mikesell wrote on 08/14/2013 01:58:29 PM: > From: Les Mikesell > To: dlel...@rockwellcollins.com > Cc: kmra...@rockwellcollins.com, Ben Reser , Ivan > Zhakov , Johan Corveleyn , > "users@subversion.apache.org" > Date: 08/14/2013 01:58 PM > Subject: Re: How

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:04 PM, wrote: > > >> Designing a build >> management system on top of subversion using only externals >> is risky. > > I disagree, but we've had this conversation already. I'd be very welcome to > try anything to help our performance. Externals can be very useful to as

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread kmradke
dlel...@rockwellcollins.com wrote on 08/14/2013 01:13:52 PM: > > I'm not sure that current SVN users accept problems with depth != > > infinity as much as they arrange their layout so they don't have to do > > that. What's a common use case for needing some disjoint arrangement > > of components

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread dlellis
Kevin M Radke/CedarRapids/RockwellCollins wrote on 08/14/2013 11:52:44 AM: > dlel...@rockwellcollins.com wrote on 08/14/2013 01:13:52 PM: > > > I'm not sure that current SVN users accept problems with depth != > > > infinity as much as they arrange their layout so they don't have to do > > > tha

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:13 PM, wrote: > > This is a case of trying to improve performance on externals by only > updating externals that have changed. Without connection caching, > performing an external update over a WAN is a test of patience. For us, our > repo is accessed over a WAN. Its

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread dlellis
Les Mikesell wrote on 08/14/2013 10:17:41 AM: > From: Les Mikesell > To: dlel...@rockwellcollins.com > Cc: Ben Reser , Ivan Zhakov , > Johan Corveleyn , "users@subversion.apache.org" > > Date: 08/14/2013 10:18 AM > Subject: Re: How to change paths on an externa

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:48 AM, wrote: > > I believe that if we can improve external performance (speed and integration > -- like handling externals when depth != infinity), not only would we help > the current users of SVN that have come to accept this, but we would have a > huge opportunity t

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-14 Thread dlellis
Ben Reser wrote on 08/11/2013 09:54:43 AM: > From: Ben Reser > To: Johan Corveleyn > Cc: dlel...@rockwellcollins.com, "users@subversion.apache.org" > , Ivan Zhakov > Date: 08/11/2013 09:55 AM > Subject: Re: How to change paths on an external file without a ful

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-12 Thread Ivan Zhakov
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Ben Reser wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: >> I'm cc'ing Ben Reser (who has the above issue assigned to him) and >> Ivan Zhakov (who recenty wrote a patch for this). Perhaps they can >> shed some light on the current state of "RA se

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-11 Thread dlellis
Ben Reser wrote on 08/11/2013 09:54:43 AM: > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > > I'm cc'ing Ben Reser (who has the above issue assigned to him) and > > Ivan Zhakov (who recenty wrote a patch for this). Perhaps they can > > shed some light on the current state of "RA s

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-11 Thread dlellis
the Berlin Hackathon, > this was deemed too risky for 1.8, but perhaps within scope for 1.9. > > > > > All that said, is there a work around to convincing SVN to recreate the file > > without a full fledge update? > > No, I'm afraid I know of no workaround. > >

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > I'm cc'ing Ben Reser (who has the above issue assigned to him) and > Ivan Zhakov (who recenty wrote a patch for this). Perhaps they can > shed some light on the current state of "RA session caching". > > As far as I remember from discussion

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-11 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:42 AM, wrote: > Hi Johan, > > I think you are spot on on both issues - thank you. You're welcome :-). > The performance issue relates to SVN externals stem, in my case, from new > connections for each http request for externals versus keeping an open one > for non-ext

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-10 Thread dlellis
reate the file without a full fledge update? Thanks, Dan From: Johan Corveleyn To: dlel...@rockwellcollins.com Cc: "users@subversion.apache.org" Date: 08/10/2013 03:15 PM Subject: Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

Re: How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-10 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:07 AM, wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In an attempt to work around the slow performance issues with externals, I'm > trying to perform selective updates on external files without performing an > "svn update --depth infinity". First: what "slow performance issues with exte

How to change paths on an external file without a full update --depth infinity?

2013-08-09 Thread dlellis
Hello everyone, In an attempt to work around the slow performance issues with externals, I'm trying to perform selective updates on external files without performing an "svn update --depth infinity". If I update the path on an external for foo.c to be from /bar1/ to /bar2/, and commit the prop

RE: external file

2010-12-04 Thread Scott Yan
Hello Daniel, Yes, this will work , thank you! Best RegardsScott.Yan From: djcbecr...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 11:01:46 +1000 Subject: Re: external file To: users@subversion.apache.org CC: scott...@live.com On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Scott Yan wrote: Hi, djcbecroft

Re: external file

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Becroft
> Please remember to Reply All to ensure the conversation stays on the list. Maybe. You can use branches, and then use intra-repository file externals to avoid merging the changes across. Cheers, Daniel B. > Best Regards > Scott.Yan > > > > > CC: users@subversion.a

Re: external file

2010-12-02 Thread David Weintraub
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Scott Yan wrote: >   Below is our situation: >   There are a dozen sub-factories in our company , and we develop our ERP > system ourselves, because there are very much diffrences between factories, > our project became a dozen versions, which means we have a dozen

Re: external file

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Becroft
On 02/12/2010, at 20:30, Scott Yan wrote: > Hi, > > At first, thanks for your great works, but our company really need > inter-repository file-externals feature which is not supported now, so , is > there any plan to do this? > > Below is our situation: > There are a dozen sub-facto

external file

2010-12-02 Thread Scott Yan
Hi, At first, thanks for your great works, but our company really need inter-repository file-externals feature which is not supported now, so , is there any plan to do this? Below is our situation: There are a dozen sub-factories in our company , and we develop our ERP system oursel