Gav.... wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: David Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 23 November 2006 8:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Building Forrest 2
Ross Gardler wrote:
David Crossley wrote:
Then Ross rearranged the repository to add the "core" subdirectory
which blew away my changes.
Doh!!!
Sorry!!!
(Strangely enough I am currently writing a presentation on using SVN in
Open source, I now have a new bullet point "not foolproof")
The only thing that i meant by that statement was that my
changes were lost and i didn't re-add them.
I think the reason that i had trouble with your restructure
was that i was working in that directory at the same time that
you did a temporary move and then another move soon after.
My 'svn up's didn't catch it and i needed to rm -r and
svn up again. So i don't blame SVN.
I lost my local changes too, they were not important, but I think I would
'blame' SVN. Around the same time as you I guess I did an 'svn up' which
Deleted some directories and then bombed out when trying to add them back
In again saying they weren't under version control (or similar). So I
Too just removed the lot and redownloaded the lot - when I say 'the lot'
It only took a minute or two, as compared to say Forrest 1 which takes 1/2
hour or Lenya which takes over a hour.
Do you use a GUI interface to SVN? If so don't!
I've seen many problems like the ones you describe when using a GUI
interface. TO be fair I have also seen them occasionally with the
command line, but far less often.
I don't use GUI's but I often "observe" team members struggling with the
various bugs hidden in there.
If you haven't done so, take the time to learn the command line - it
will save you time in the long run. It won't help with your download
speeds, only Forrest 2 can do that ;-)
Ross
