Re: [boost] Why I hate subversion

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-28 16:35:49

Eric Niebler wrote:
> Timo Geusch wrote:
>> Eric Niebler wrote:
>>>
>>> "Permission denied!"
>>> More subversion corruption.
>>> Another day lost.
>>>   
>> Try using the native win32 subversion binaries instead. I've seen 
>> similar problems with the Cygwin version on Windows XP, as has a 
>> colleague of mine, especially when we were using svn from inside cygwin 
>> bash scripts or 'find' operations. The problems disappeared when we 
>> switched to using the native binaries.
> 
> Ah, thanks for the tip. I'll try that.

Update: it's been 4 months and I've experienced no subversion 
corruption. Moral: don't use cygwin's subversion client on windows; use 
the native win32 client instead.

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Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
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