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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by David Aldrich <Da...@EU.NEC.COM> on 2009/01/06 14:28:08 UTC
Subversion 1.5.5 - reintegrate fix
Hi
The svn 1.5.5 release notes include the change:
* improve performance of 'svn merge --reintegrate' (r34091, -4, and others)
I am trying to decide whether 1.5.5 is a critical update for us. We do use the reintegrate merge feature. Is this change purely a performance improvement, or could reintegrate produce wrong results in earlier releases?
BR
David
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Re: Subversion 1.5.5 - reintegrate fix
Posted by Mark Phippard <mp...@collab.net>.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM, David Aldrich <Da...@eu.nec.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> Thanks very much for your reply.
>
>> IMO, 1.5.5 is a critical release and it should be applied to clients.
>
> Would you say it is critical for the server as well as for clients?
As with most fix releases, most of the fixes are only in the client.
There are a couple of fixes for BDB repositories in this release and
it looks like there is one fix for the proxy feature as well. If you
use those features, then yes, otherwise I think it is not urgent.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
RE: Subversion 1.5.5 - reintegrate fix
Posted by David Aldrich <Da...@EU.NEC.COM>.
Hi Mark
Thanks very much for your reply.
> IMO, 1.5.5 is a critical release and it should be applied to clients.
Would you say it is critical for the server as well as for clients?
BR
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip@gmail.com]
> Sent: 06 January 2009 14:36
> To: David Aldrich
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Subversion 1.5.5 - reintegrate fix
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Aldrich
> <Da...@eu.nec.com> wrote:
>
> > The svn 1.5.5 release notes include the change:
> >
> > * improve performance of 'svn merge --reintegrate'
> (r34091, -4, and
> > others)
> >
> > I am trying to decide whether 1.5.5 is a critical update
> for us. We do use the reintegrate merge feature. Is this
> change purely a performance improvement, or could reintegrate
> produce wrong results in earlier releases?
>
> The fix really was not related to performance. What the fix
> did was correct the problems where reintegrate refuses to run
> because you have subtree mergeinfo. It now does a more
> intelligent examination of the content of that mergeinfo to
> determine when it is OK that it exists.
>
> The merge itself is not changed at all, it is just the
> checking that reintegrate does before it runs the merge.
>
> IMO, 1.5.5 is a critical release and it should be applied to clients.
> If you successfully use reintegrate today, then these
> specific fixes will not matter to you, but there were other
> changes that are significant. For example, local copy/move
> no longer creates the mergeinfo that causes so many of the
> annoyances in earlier 1.5.x releases.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
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Re: Subversion 1.5.5 - reintegrate fix
Posted by Mark Phippard <mp...@collab.net>.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Aldrich <Da...@eu.nec.com> wrote:
> The svn 1.5.5 release notes include the change:
>
> * improve performance of 'svn merge --reintegrate' (r34091, -4, and others)
>
> I am trying to decide whether 1.5.5 is a critical update for us. We do use the reintegrate merge feature. Is this change purely a performance improvement, or could reintegrate produce wrong results in earlier releases?
The fix really was not related to performance. What the fix did was
correct the problems where reintegrate refuses to run because you have
subtree mergeinfo. It now does a more intelligent examination of the
content of that mergeinfo to determine when it is OK that it exists.
The merge itself is not changed at all, it is just the checking that
reintegrate does before it runs the merge.
IMO, 1.5.5 is a critical release and it should be applied to clients.
If you successfully use reintegrate today, then these specific fixes
will not matter to you, but there were other changes that are
significant. For example, local copy/move no longer creates the
mergeinfo that causes so many of the annoyances in earlier 1.5.x
releases.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/