[Julian Foad] > Let's check I understood the problem correctly: User has 1.6 client > and 1.6 WCs, no 1.7 stuff involved at all. User's system has a WC > rooted at the file system root: '/.svn' exists and is not readable by > this user. In some normal operations that used to work with svn > 1.6.x, svn 1.6.9 tries to look for a file '/.svn/wc.db' and throws an > error because it's denied access to that directory.
All correct. The main thing to ask about my patch is that it ignores _all_ errors trying to read .../.svn/wc.db, not just 'permission denied'. Are there any errors that we would _want_ to catch? My feeling is no, if there's any trouble of any sort, we should just stop looking for 1.7 WCs. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
