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. We are experiencing an issue with just > one particular repository. > > When programmers run an update against this one repository (using > either TortoiseSVN 1.6.15 or Slik Subversion 1.6.16 on Windows 7 Pro > SP1), they observe that they sometimes get---to coin their > term---"frankenstein" versions of arbitrary files. As an example > scenario: > > 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: who has never before seen file X, runs an update. > She gets a weird version of file X which contains only *some* lines > of the set of changes made by Developer A in each of the edit/commit > sessions (1), (2), and (3). > > We cannot replicate the problem on demand, but it recurs with > (seemingly) random files at random times. The worst thing is that > when an update silently "reverts" some unknown file (to a > "frankenstein" version), it is subsequently committed as a new > version by the unsuspecting developer. > > We've tried exporting and re-importing the code to a new repository, > but the issue has persisted. "Svnadmin verify" finds no errors in > any revisions. Our latest move was to disable the Windows Search > service, but if that's really the problem, our other developers > should be seeing this with other repositories. Any advice on how to > duplicate/troubleshoot the cause of this problem will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you, > Dave
