Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Stefan Sperling] > > Have you seen ^/subversion/branches/1.6.x-wc-ng-check-override ? > > I think that's the workaround you need. Log of the branch below. > > It's already nominated for backport, so if you like it, please vote :) > > I hadn't seen it. Yes, this solves the problem - but I'm not sure this > 'permission denied' should really require a workaround like > > export SVN_I_LOVE_CORRUPTED_WORKING_COPIES_SO_DISABLE_CHECK_FOR_WC_NG=yes > > Jon, what's your opinion on Stefan's approach?
I'm not Jon but my opinion is that we need a bug fix, not a work-around, and that Peter's patch <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-02/0431.shtml> is the sort of fix we need. (I haven't reviewed it, just glanced over it.) Let's check I understood the problem correctly: User has 1.6 client and 1.6 WCs, no 1.7 stuff involved at all. User's system has a WC rooted at the file system root: '/.svn' exists and is not readable by this user. In some normal operations that used to work with svn 1.6.x, svn 1.6.9 tries to look for a file '/.svn/wc.db' and throws an error because it's denied access to that directory. - Julian
