Author: danielsh Date: Fri Mar 23 17:49:31 2012 New Revision: 1304527 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1304527&view=rev Log: * docs/issue4129.txt: New file, containing user-level summary of issue #4129.
Added: subversion/site/publish/docs/issue4129.txt (with props) Added: subversion/site/publish/docs/issue4129.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/docs/issue4129.txt?rev=1304527&view=auto ============================================================================== --- subversion/site/publish/docs/issue4129.txt (added) +++ subversion/site/publish/docs/issue4129.txt Fri Mar 23 17:49:31 2012 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +$LastChangedDate$ +$Revision$ + +This is about issue #4129: +http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4129 +"predecessor links on the root node-revision skip revisions" + +Symptoms: +'svn log' on a directory skips revisions in which that directory or its +children changed. +(not confirmed) 'svn blame' may skip revisions: all lines last changed in a +revision would be reported as belonging to the previous revision that touched +the file being annotated. + +Occurs only in: +FSFS repositories that contain at least one svn:mergeinfo property. + +Does not occur in: +Repositories that never have more than one commit-in-progress. Examples: +Repositories written to only by 'svnadmin load' or only by 'svnsync sync'. +(This in particular applies to the slave mirrors in a "DAV Proxy" set-up.) + +Fixed in: +1.6.18, 1.7.5. The fix is server-side. + +Commit-time checks preventing new instances of the issue added in: +1.6.18, 1.7.1 + +'svnadmin verify' support for detecting some forms of this bug added in: +1.8.0 + +Mitigation: +1) Upgrade to 1.6.18 or 1.7.1, to prevent new instances of the bug from +entering the history. (1.7.5+ recommended.) +2) Either perform a dump/load cycle, or create an svnsync mirror and swap it +with the repository. (The load or svnsync can be done with any version of svn.) Propchange: subversion/site/publish/docs/issue4129.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ svn:keywords = URL Author Date Revision Id