Most Subversion users are familiar with text conflicts. The classic case: You have a locally edited file in your working copy, an svn update brings a change to the same file from the repository, that incoming change cannot be merged cleanly into your local change, and the result is a text conflict. Subversion 1.6.0 expands this concept [...]
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Subversion 1.5 introduced that idea of sharding for FSFS-backed repositories. For every commit to a FSFS repository, Subversion creates a single file which describes all the changes in that revision. Prior to 1.5, all of those files were stored in a single directory, which had several drawbacks: incremental backups took a long time, the repository [...]
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“cmpilato ❤ sparse directories” If I had a dollar for every time I’ve typed that… well, you and I could at least spring for some Fazoli’s fast-food Italian. Okay, I admit that the emotion doesn’t always drive me to public expression, but that in no way diminishes my fondness for this feature. Introduced in Subversion [...]
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My previous blog entry discussing Subversion, Apache and LDAP is nearing two years old. It was written when Apache 2.0.x was still the mainstream and when Apache 2.2.x was released, changes in the LDAP modules and their respective configuration directives has left my previous entry very confusing for those wanting to use Apache 2.2.x. The [...]
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