Re: Proposal for OPW project

2012-12-31 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Gabriela Gibson wrote on Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 22:31:36 +: > But this would leave space for other projects. Does anyone have ideas > for good (relatively small) projects to help me learn the code base? Perhaps pick a library and grep for "###|TODO|FIXME"? Investigating any one of them (and re

RE: 1.6.20 up for testing/signing

2012-12-31 Thread Bert Huijben
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] > Sent: maandag 31 december 2012 08:55 > To: Johan Corveleyn > Cc: Ben Reser; Subversion Development > Subject: Re: 1.6.20 up for testing/signing > > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:50:19 +0100:

Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Ziemowit Laski
Hello, I'm playing around with LLVM sources and would like to make local tweaks while keeping track with ongoing development in the trunk. I tried issuing the command: svn copy http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk svn+ssh://usern...@myserver.net/usr/data/llvm-local to which SV

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Branko Čibej
On 31.12.2012 12:36, Ziemowit Laski wrote: > My question is this: Is there a compelling technical reason why > branching must occur within the same repository? I'm tempted to try my > hand in adding cross-repository branching to SVN, but would like to make > sure first that this is not impossible.

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 03:36:16AM -0800, Ziemowit Laski wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'm playing around with LLVM sources and would like to make local tweaks > while keeping track with ongoing development in the trunk. I tried > issuing the command: > > > > svn copy http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Branko Čibej
On 31.12.2012 15:05, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Anything more involved than the foreign-repos merge crutch above would be > far from trivial. And there is no point in making Subversion a distributed > version control system. I think you're misinterpreting what "foreign repository branch" means. It d

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 03:18:41PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 31.12.2012 15:05, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Anything more involved than the foreign-repos merge crutch above would be > > far from trivial. And there is no point in making Subversion a distributed > > version control system. > > I

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Branko Čibej
On 31.12.2012 15:38, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 03:18:41PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: >> Rather, it would do away with all the hoops you have to jump through in >> order to work with vendor branches. It would also remove 99% of the use >> cases for out-of-repo externals. >> >>

Re: Apache Subversion: GNOME Women Outreach

2012-12-31 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 07:22:20PM +1000, Miriam Hochwald wrote: > As yet I am still setting up the development environment, working through > the follow instructions: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/INSTALL > > Putting together all these bits and bods seems quite foreign to

Re: 1.6.20 up for testing/signing

2012-12-31 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: > I think the necessary patches are in > ^/subversion/branches/subversion/branches/1.6.x-serf-1-win32 I think the reason 1.6.x doesn't have serf-1 fixes is because we've been trying to limit 1.6.x to security and stability fixes. Serf is an op

[PATCH] "svn diff -x -w" gets error or outputs incorrect diff

2012-12-31 Thread Hideki IWAMOTO
Hi. I found a bug in token_compare() defined in subversion/libsvn_diff/diff_file.c. When reading token from file, offset of the normalized token and the length before normalization are used. This causes reading exceeding the file size or comparison beyond the end-of-line. The attached patch fix

[PATCH] Procedure for making web page changes

2012-12-31 Thread Gabriela Gibson
This is a first cut, there is room for improvement, please let me know what you think. Because of the size of the changes, I considered attaching the resulting web page -- would that be appropriate in future? Happy New Year! Gabriela [[[ Addition of section describing procedure for obtaining

RE: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Ziemowit Laski
Hi Stefan, Thank you for the quick response. > Subversion hasn't been designed for distributed operation. > See > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_ > base/notes/fs-history > and > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_ > fs/st

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ziemowit Laski wrote on Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 15:01:50 -0800: > > Subversion hasn't been designed for distributed operation. > > See > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_ > > base/notes/fs-history > > and > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > (This is currently not possible because svnsync assumes that it writes > to the repository root and assumes revnums in the src and dest > repositories must equal; with the change, what will have to be equal is > some sort of svn:sync-source-r

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2012-12-31 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > You should be engaging with the llvm community > and get commit access, rather than maintaining an isolated fork. I'll point out the irony here and I offer my apologies to Stefan if you feel that this is targeting you. While I'm replying