[lug] subversion questions

[D. Stimits]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> I'm fairly confident that on previous versions of subversion (1.0 and 1.1
> I believe),
> you needed the client to be at a minimum level to work with the server
> (and those two didn't get
> along).
...

Ok, solved! The server owner found that there was some sort of bug when 
working with sym links on that server version. svn is supposed to work 
with sym links, and one of those links got turned into a hard link 
during export or checkout. So the server still called it a sym link, but 
the working copy was a hard link. svn will ignore sym links during 
commits, and only pays attention to the hard linked file...so it sat and 
did nothing on what locally appeared to be a hard link. On the server 
side it still treated it as a sym link. With the server version updated 
and the sym links fixed, it now works properly.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net