I second that. I support fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (and soon 12), various ubuntu 
releases, plus windows XP, Vista, and Win7, and Mac OS 10.4, 10.5. When one of 
them upgrades, it causes me to scramble to build and deploy upgrades to the 
others. 

JLM


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon [mailto:tzueskj...@snkmail.com]
Sent: Mon 4/12/2010 9:17 PM
To: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Automatic upgrade of wc format annoying on shared drives
 
We have work directories shared between many physical machines here (via sshfs, 
nfs, etc). We also use subversion as our configuration management system for 
source files.

When a newer client ends up on on of the work machines, it automatically (and 
silently) upgrades the wc metadata format of any working copies it touches. 
This prevents future access of any of the other clients until the working 
copies are manually downgraded (such as via: 
http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#working-copy-format-change ).

This is quite annoying.

I think correct behaviour here is that the client should at least prompt the 
user to ask if it should upgrade the wc metadata format before messing with the 
working copy.

Failing that, is there some way of locking a working copy to a particular 
version of the wc metadata format.

Regards,

Simon

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