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. 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
FSFS. My understanding is that the 1.4.2 (reported by running "svn
--version" on the server) is what ships with CentOS 5.5, and that it is
"backported" so that it includes recent updates, bugfixes, etc. I'm not
sure how to check what repo format is on the server, though. We have not
yet tried 1.5.7 or 1.6.16 server.
Thanks,
-Dave
