On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:27:28PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 20.09.2012 16:14, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > > I just noticed that SmartSVN has been acquired by Wandisco [1]. > > > > IMHO, one of the nice features of SmartSVN's professional (commercial, > > non-free) version is the ability to repair broken working copies. It's > > listed as the feature "Guided fixing of rare working copy problems" on > > the "Compare Editions" page [2]. It does things like correcting > > checksums, refcounts, recovering missing pristines, ... (by contacting > > the repository of course). > > > > Are there any intentions of porting that feature to core SVN? Now that > > the Wandisconians are involved with that codebase ... > > Just asking ... :-). > > The WANdisconians do not, in fact, see the SmartSVN codebase. At least I > sure hope we don't have access to it; all sorts of problems could arise > if proprietary, closed-source stuff started showing up in the public > repo, even by accident.
AFAIK SmartSVN is written in Java. The feature Johan wants (which I agree would be very useful) would need to be rewritten in C anyway to be included in the core. > That's unless WANdisco wants to open-source the whole thing. :) Which I > have no opinion of, nor insight into. That's an interesting question indeed. WANdisco has submitted projects to the Apache Incubator in the past. Being a Subversion client written in Java, this one seems like it would be a good fit :) It would need to switch from SVNKit to JavaHL for legal reasons, but that should be easy. Probably more of a business model question, rather than a technical one.
