svn commit: r1696722 - /subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/detach.py

[ju...@apache.org]

Author: julianfoad
Date: Thu Aug 20 08:07:36 2015
New Revision: 1696722

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1696722
Log:
* tools/client-side/detach.py
  Add a note about how this doesn't work with 1.8+, and link to the email thread.

Suggested by: Stefan <luke1410{_AT_}gmx.de>

Modified:
    subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/detach.py

Modified: subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/detach.py
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/detach.py?rev=1696722&r1=1696721&r2=1696722&view=diff
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--- subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/detach.py (original)
+++ subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/detach.py Thu Aug 20 08:07:36 2015
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@
 #    under the License.
 # ====================================================================
 
+# Note: This script has a hardcoded check for a 1.7 WC format. It won't work
+# with 1.8+ WCs. For one thing, it doesn't handle WC move-tracking metadata.
+# As stated in the exception it's unfinished and not ready for use. See the
+# dev@ email thread "detach.py script isn't updated for 1.8/1.9" started on
+# 2015-08-12 at e.g. <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2015-08/0071.shtml> or
+# <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201508.mbox/%3C55CA829A.2080509@gmx.de%3E>.
+
 # TODO: if this was part of core subversion, we'd have all sorts of nifty
 #       checks, and could use a lot of existing code.