On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 01:31:08PM +0200, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote: > > People will get an error if one of the currently released 1.8 server > > with revprop caching enabled or svnadmin change a revprop. In > > that case, a 1.9 process using revprop caching will error out upon > > revprop access. > > > > Local modifications via non-caching pre-1.9 applications may > > remain invisible to revprop caching 1.9 applications until either > > a 1.9 application performs a (any) revprop change or the respective > > process respawns. > > I think we need a repository format bump from 1.8 to 1.9, and disable > revprop caching in 1.8 and 1.9 for the current format. This should prevent > unexpected errors when upgrading from 1.8.x (any version) to 1.9. > > Going forward, we should only allow revprop caching in a new repository > format with a fixed implementation (given a fixed implementation is > possible). > Agreed. -- Stefan^2.