Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

Doug Robinson wrote: > Philip: > > How do I subscribe to the dev list?  Not sure I really have time for that... > but perhaps. I'm not Philip but I can tell you.  Google("subversion dev mailing list subscribe") -> -> email :-) > THIS MESSAG

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Doug Robinson wrote: > How do I subscribe to the dev list? Not sure I really have time for that... > but perhaps. http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

Philip: How do I subscribe to the dev list? Not sure I really have time for that... but perhaps. Thank you. Doug On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Philip Martin wrote: > Doug, > > I started a thread on the dev list and meant to cc you but forgot. > Don't feel any obligation to promote the ide

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Julian Foad wrote: > That's OK for manual investigation, but we're looking for a solution that > suitable for building into infrastructure management scripts, so it needs to > be portable and reliable, and stable across OS upgrades and the like. Repositories on

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

C. Michael Pilato wrote: >> On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: >>> Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With >>> any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to >>> find out who/what has the lock.  So, a system that tells me the re

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

On 31.05.2013 17:27, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 05/31/2013 11:23 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >> On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: >>> Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With >>> any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to >>

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

On 05/31/2013 11:23 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: >> Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With >> any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to >> find out who/what has the lock. So, a system that

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: > Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With > any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to > find out who/what has the lock. So, a system that tells me the repo is > currently locked by which of t

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Philip Martin wrote on Fri, May 31, 2013 at 14:23:35 +0100: >> Daniel Shahaf writes: >>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should provide it.  I'm concerned that it woul

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

Philip Martin wrote on Fri, May 31, 2013 at 14:23:35 +0100: > Daniel Shahaf writes: > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > >> I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should > >> provide it. I'm concerned that it would be making freeze spec

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

Daniel Shahaf writes: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: >> I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should >> provide it. I'm concerned that it would be making freeze special. >> Would we need to provide similar queries for upgrade, recover,

Re: Using "svnadmin freeze"

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should > provide it. I'm concerned that it would be making freeze special. > Would we need to provide similar queries for upgrade, recover, pack, > etc? > For what it

Using "svnadmin freeze"

One of my colleagues at WANdisco asked some questions about using freeze. The first thing he wanted to know is how to detect whether a freeze is running. There are various approaches: look at running processes, look at processes with the lock file open, implement some external lock, etc. but none