Servers configuration file not recreated when it is the only one missing

[Francois Beausoleil <fb...@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hi !

I wonder if you guys would consider this a bug.  I had an older version
of SVN installed on my Win32 machine.  This was < SVN 0.25.  It is a
machine I use infrequently.  So, I decided to upgrade to 0.27.0.  Then, I
tried authentifying with my HTTPS server at home.  I am self-certified,
so I wanted to update the servers configuration file so that I could put
add ssl-ignore-unknown-ca = true.  At the time, I did not remember the
exact value name.  So, I remembered that on my machine, the file had
examples in the servers file, which this one did not have.  So, I deleted
the file, and ran an innocuous SVN command (svn help in this case). 
Surprise, the servers file had not been recreated.  I tried a few more
commands (svn ls, log, status), and the file still had not been
recreated.  In the end, I deleted the whole Subversion configuration
folder, and when I next ran SVN, the folder was recreated with
appropriate default files in it.

So, the question is:  Should the Subversion command-line client recreate
missing files in the configuration directory, or should only the whole
directory be recreated when required ?

If missing files should be recreated, this would be a bug I believe.

My environment:
Win2K SP 3
svn, version 0.27.0 (r6715)
   compiled Aug 20 2003, 02:19:40

Thanks !
François
Developer of Java Gui Builder
http://jgb.sourceforge.net/

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Re: Servers configuration file not recreated when it is the only one missing

[Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:24:18AM -0400, Francois Beausoleil wrote:
[snip]
> So, the question is:  Should the Subversion command-line client
> recreate missing files in the configuration directory, or should only
> the whole directory be recreated when required ?
[snip]

This was discussed before.  Some people don't like arbitrary files lying
around that they aren't using.  These people get upset if Subversion
creates the things every time it notices they have been deleted.

The compromise was that if the directory is missing it gets created with
all the contents, but if just part of the contents is missing,
Subversion will not do anything.

(Or something like that.)  :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>

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