On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 01:50:36PM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > That's correct. > > And Philip, I see this as really two issues: > > 1. we auto-upgrade working copies (at all) > 2. we auto-upgrade working copies that are arguably not the true targets of > an operation. > > I can live with the first problem if I must. It's the second that's the > more egregious of the two, in my book. So yes, I think it makes (as you > suggested elsethread) to add a 'read-only' mode to the WCDB, and to use that > mode in the initial exploratory phases of a checkout operation. Maybe we > provide a way to upgrade that to read/write programmatically rather than > closing and re-opening the DB ... no opinion there. Whatever makes the most > sense.
Or we just disable auto-upgrade. I think we've seen enough reasons now why it's just a plain stupid idea in practice. It it supposed to help users with gazillions of working copies that they have lying around and want to use with a newly installed svn client, and who don't have enough time to type 'svn upgrade' when they want to start using one of their old working copies. [*] And it annoys everyone else, as far as I can tell. [*] That's the only reason for its existence that I've heard, to date.
