Re: svn Farm

2010-10-17 Thread Alan Barrett
in a focused discussion about how such a feature could work and could be useful. --apb (Alan Barrett)

--no-config-dir option?

2010-12-23 Thread Alan Barrett
g-dir=none". I have discovered an ugly workaround: If I set --configdir=/nonexistent/nonexistent (giving the name of a directory that does not exist, and whose parent also does not exist), then the absence of the parent directory means that svn will be unable to create the child directory. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: --no-config-dir option?

2010-12-23 Thread Alan Barrett
x27;t need *to* create it (it won't contain any useful information), and I don't want the clutter. Another annoying issue is that commands that one would expect to be read-only (such as "svn status" or "svn info") also create the config directory. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: --no-config-dir option?

2010-12-23 Thread Alan Barrett
ry, I prefer not to do that for issues where I have a simple workaround. If I could file issues anonymously, or after solving a captcha, or via email, or even using an openid login, then I would be more likely to do so. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: how do I revert a bad commit without creating a new revision?

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Barrett
at have disappeared, will now be broken. You may be able to fix them via "svn update -r${LAST_GOOD_REVISION}", but in the worst case, your users will have to delete the working copies and check them out again. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: how do I revert a bad commit without creating a new revision?

2011-07-08 Thread Alan Barrett
where revision > ${last_good_revision};". Newer formats will probably need different treatment. Again, this is all unsupported and at your own risk. --apb (Alan Barrett) [original message repeated for reference:] To truncate a repository that uses the "fsfs" format, so that you lose everyth

Re: how to compare an exported file (or set of files) against the repository?

2011-10-07 Thread Alan Barrett
that was originally checked out. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: control-M characters that are NOT end of line characters

2012-01-04 Thread Alan Barrett
changing the script to not use an embedded control-M. Here are two ways of doing that: tr -d '\r' <"$infile" >"$outfile" control_M="$(printf '\r')" sed -e "s/${control_M}//" <"$infile" >"$outfile" --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: new folder

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Barrett
only members of your admin group can create branches. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: Junior developers

2010-02-24 Thread Alan Barrett
o solve outside svn. You could also extend this by requiring the log message to contain a reference number to an external database that tracks code reviews and approvals. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: svn diff working copy against a different branch

2010-08-21 Thread Alan Barrett
py. svn diff --old=svn://server/repo/branch/subdir --new=./subdir --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: Subversion Blues - please help

2010-09-29 Thread Alan Barrett
doesn't keep the head version as > a normal file like cvs/rcs. I make my hooks directory a working copy of an appropriate subdirecrory in the repository (or in another repository), and use a post-commit hook to run "svn update" in the hooks dir when it sees a commit to the relevant path. --apb (Alan Barrett)

Re: Subversion Blues - please help

2010-10-01 Thread Alan Barrett
> > On 9/29/2010 11:11 AM, Alan Barrett wrote: > >> I make my hooks directory a working copy of an appropriate subdirecrory > >> in the repository (or in another repository), and use a post-commit > >> hook to run "svn update" in the hooks dir when