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Re: Stale logs and upgrading to WC-NG

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:15:59 -0400

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Branko Cibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> wrote:
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> As many know, the upgrade process to move existing working copies to
>> the 1.7 format will be manual.  On *any* action, the user will be
>> prompted to run 'svn cleanup' to upgrade the format.
>
> Hm. Let's just hope users aren't too accustomed to running "svn cleanup"
> each and every time their SVN starts misbehaving, or this
> upgrade-on-cleanup could be a serious problem. Sort of like Windows
> Vista having trained users to the unthinking clickthrough ...

If the message says you need to upgrade your WC format and to run svn
cleanup to do it, that does not seem too likely to bring confusion
about what it is doing.

Would you prefer a specific new sub-command for this?

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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