From: "Brett H. Williams" <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2003-07-25T22:34:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] subversion, was [ANN] RubyForge.org

On Jul 25, Oliver Bolzer wrote:
> 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
> 
> At my place ( informatic dept @ univ ) we have been using Subversion for
> about 9month now for several internal development projects as well as
> giving students the possibility to create their own repositories. Not once
> did we experience database corruption.
> 
> The only major downside (other than that compiling is a PITA) we experienced
> is, that the server and client versions need to be somewhat in synchro,
> otherwise their communication breaks in unexpected ways (like XML errors or
> plain "permissin denied" messages). 

We used the same source for both platforms so the versions should have
lined up (although testing the Red Hat 9 version with our server yielded
errors not unlike what you describe).  Which server did you use (webdav,
subversion, local)?  Did you have multiple platforms?