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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>
To: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <531196777.20111117225207@mtu-net.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC53A81.3040307@bopp.net>

Greetings, Jeremy Bopp!

> Thank you for confirming my memory regarding these format changes.
> Still, while it makes sense for the project to make backward
> incompatible changes at times, it still seems odd that the new clients
> wouldn't support using the working copies from at least 1 minor version
> back in order to ease interoperability between SVN client implementations.

Unfortunatelly, changes in WC format for 1.7 was QUITE drastic...
As said, you can find more info on http://subversion.apache.org/
This is the wrong mailing list to discuss them.

> I could see that the new clients wouldn't *create* older version working
> copies in order to encourage adoption of the changes, but it wouldn't
> seem too hard on the face of it to keep around a compatibility layer
> from the last minor version in order to *use* an older working copy.
> It's the maintainers' decision how they build their project, of course.
>  I just find this aspect surprising.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 17.11.2011, <22:50>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16 23:06 Jim Garrison
2011-11-17  0:53 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-11-17  7:50   ` Andrey Repin
2011-11-17 15:37     ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-11-17 16:10       ` Jon Clugston
2011-11-17 16:47         ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-11-17 19:05           ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2011-11-17  9:10 ` Andy Koppe
2011-11-17 11:12   ` Csaba Raduly
2011-11-17 16:33     ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-11-17 19:05   ` Andrey Repin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-15 21:47 Sean LeBlanc
2011-11-16 15:18 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-11-16 21:16   ` David Rothenberger
2011-11-16 22:35   ` Andrey Repin
2011-11-16 23:01     ` David Rothenberger
2011-11-17 19:06     ` Warren Young
2011-11-17 22:50       ` Andrey Repin
2011-11-18  0:14         ` Warren Young
2011-11-18  9:50           ` Andrey Repin
2011-11-18 14:25           ` Csaba Raduly
2011-11-18 17:23             ` Dave Korn
2011-11-19  9:30             ` Warren Young

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