From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@...>
Date: 2003-07-25T08:45:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] subversion, was [ANN] RubyForge.org

At 4:08 AM +0900 7/24/03, Brett H. Williams wrote:
>
>I've been following subversion development for two years, and
>we finally took it out for a more complete test drive a couple
>of months ago, using it for some small projects.  ...
>
>... Also, with a single tiny repository and 3 people using it
>lightly, we got several database corruptions in a single week
>which needed to be repaired.  One of these wasn't even
>repairable with the recover command.

>But having subversion corrupt its db all the time was too much
>even for us.
>
>Do others have differing experiences with it?  I'd love to hear
>we've just done something really dumb because we could really
>use subversion here...

Did you fly any of these database problems by the subversion
developers, to see if they had any ideas as to the causes?  I
haven't used subversion at all, but one of my friends works a
lot with it.  I'm certainly hoping to see problems like this
addressed.

When I asked my friend about this, he said there were several
cases of problems when some user runs 'svnadmin recover' on
a repository that people were still accessing.  Is it possible
that you would have run into that?  (I don't even know what
the "recover" would be used for...)

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