On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote:

> On 15.10.2012 17:14, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote:
> > However, if you have a long-running process like a server, that race
> > condition extends now extends over its whole lifetime. I.e. once a
> > revprop got read, any change to its value by a pre-1.8 tool may never
> > get detected.
>
> Ouch. This seems wrong. I'd understand a design like this if the
> long-running server were the only process accessing the repository, but
> that has never been the case in Subversion. In this case, a cache that
> can't detect out-of-band changes to the canonical dataset isn't very
> useful.
>

*sigh* If you really have to use 1.7 tools on an 1.8 server,
you can't use revprop caching. Most people, however,
will use 1.8 svnadmin on 1.8 servers.

-- Stefan^2.

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