Okay.. After receiving the latest upgrade to Subversion for Ubuntu from Canonical, my wife and I have run across an odd behavior (bug?). As my signature block betrays, we are indi authors, not coders. We're both running Ubuntu 12.04lts, she on an Intel box, me on an AMD-64. Here's what happened:
1. I made about ten thousand edits to my working copy (no, not really, but it was a lot) and then committed them to the repository as per normal. 2. My wife updated her working copy, which contained my edits -- again, as per normal. 3. Then she went to work on the document, and asked me to do some search and replace work. I did. Tried to commit but was out of date. No problem. Update! 4. My ten thousand edits returned from the bit bucket abyss! *She* doesn't have them. I didn't have them before the update, because I'm the one who deleted the material in the first darned place! 5. Anyway, I resolved a couple of conflicts and did a "commit after resolve" as per normal. 6. She updated her working copy. Guess what: My edits did *not* return from the abyss in her working copy. Her copy remained "clean" (current, up to date, whatever) 7. I committed again. She updated. They STILL didn't show up. 8. *She* committed again and I updated. My disappeared edits remain in my copy! Now, interestingly enough, the search and replace work I did remained in place (as it should) through all of this. But *somehow* we now seem have to "completely correct" (according to the repository anyway) versions of the document that Subversion thinks are identical, but that are, in fact, different. My copy has all the deleted material, plus the search and replace work that I did. Her copy not only has the search and replace work, but also does *not* have the material I deleted and/or changed back in step 1. (Or so it appears. Quite frankly, I did so much work before committing, most of it may never be found again, or edited in the same way I did it the first time. But there was a long list of "TODOs" that I had deleted and every. single. one. of them re-appeared. Thanks for your time. I'm sorry if this doesn't include all the technical information you're used to seeing. While I have nearly 20 years worth of linux admin experience, as I said, we're authors, not coders or developers, so my technical knowledge does have limits. :) -=Michael=- Metaphor Publications *********************************** Add me to your address book: http://ourteam.com/mjmatson ***********************************
