Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <010601c4bc26$00e34510$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Roland Schwingel" , References: <417F55B2 DOT 4030707 AT onevision DOT de> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.1.1-1 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:07:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Roland Schwingel wrote: > Hello Max... > > I recently encountered a cygwin specific problem with 1.1.x of subversion. > > If your cygwin homeaccount resides on an UNC network share the cygwin > binary cannot find/create the .subversion folder there. I know. I mentioned that (admittedly in more general terms) in my release announcement. See "caveat 2" quoted below. > I filed an issue on that yesterday in the subversion issue tracker > (#2108). I also added a simple patch for it there. Yes, I'm on the subversion lists, including the issue-tracker notification one. I'll try to get that reviewed if no one else takes it, but subversion's path-canonicalization is not something I've looked at before, so it might take a bit of research for me to get up to speed. Max. > Subject > [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.1.1-1 > > Subversion, a version control system which aims to be a compelling > replacement for CVS, has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to > version 1.1.1-1. > > This is a new upstream feature release. > > The release notes (*well worth reading*) are here: > http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.1_releasenotes.html > > A couple of minor caveats: > > 1) One of the new features is versioning of symlinks. One of the automated > tests of this feature is fails on Cygwin. I'll look into this in time. > > 2) Subversion 1.1 may fail to understand UNC (\\server\share) paths in > some > cases where Subversion 1.0 would work. A fix is being discussed on the > Subversion lists at the moment. If this is a showstopper for you, you may > want to wait for a fix before upgrading from 1.0.x. > > Max Bowsher. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/