Re: race condition on checkin immediately followed by a merge?

2010-05-20 Thread Dan Stromberg
Hi. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Daniel Widenfalk wrote: > Dan Stromberg wrote: >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: >> >>>> Subversion uses a simple heuristic to determine if a file has >>>> changed. It is well documented in the s

Re: race condition on checkin immediately followed by a merge?

2010-05-19 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: >> Subversion uses a simple heuristic to determine if a file has >> changed. It is well documented in the source code but perhaps >> not so well known: >> >> If the size and time stamp of a file is the same as when checking >> out the file it i

race condition on checkin immediately followed by a merge?

2010-05-17 Thread Dan Stromberg
Hi folks. I'm working on some code to automatically flow checkins from n branches to m branches. Actually, I'm overhauling some old code for doing this, mostly by rewriting. The code I'm aiming to replace has had a longstanding problem with SVN reliability. ISTR that one of the issues was that

Re: Copying from one repository to another, flattening the early part of the source repo's history in the target repo?

2010-04-29 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/29/2010 1:06 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> >> I'm working on some Subversion-related software for propagating trunk >> checkins to any of dozens of target branches, based on trunk's checkin >> comments

Re: Copying from one repository to another, flattening the early part of the source repo's history in the target repo?

2010-04-29 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Tyler Roscoe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:06:40AM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> So to make it work well from the start, I need to test it well. To >> test it, I really want to copy from one SVN server's trunk to another >&g

Copying from one repository to another, flattening the early part of the source repo's history in the target repo?

2010-04-29 Thread Dan Stromberg
I'm working on some Subversion-related software for propagating trunk checkins to any of dozens of target branches, based on trunk's checkin comments (that is, where the checkins need to subsequently go automatically is determined by the checkin comments in trunk, and those comments are prepared pr