[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.1.1-1

[Max Bowsher]

Roland Schwingel wrote:
> Hello Max...
>
> I recently encountered a cygwin specific problem with 1.1.x of subversion.
>
> If your cygwin homeaccount resides on an UNC network share the cygwin
> binary cannot find/create the .subversion folder there.

I know. I mentioned that (admittedly in more general terms) in my release 
announcement. See "caveat 2" quoted below.

> I filed an issue on that yesterday in the subversion issue tracker
> (#2108). I also added a simple patch for it there.

Yes, I'm on the subversion lists, including the issue-tracker notification 
one.

I'll try to get that reviewed if no one else takes it, but subversion's 
path-canonicalization is not something I've looked at before, so it might 
take a bit of research for me to get up to speed.

Max.

> Subject
> [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.1.1-1
>
> Subversion, a version control system which aims to be a compelling
> replacement for CVS, has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to
> version 1.1.1-1.
>
> This is a new upstream feature release.
>
> The release notes (*well worth reading*) are here:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.1_releasenotes.html
>
> A couple of minor caveats:
>
> 1) One of the new features is versioning of symlinks. One of the automated
> tests of this feature is fails on Cygwin. I'll look into this in time.
>
> 2) Subversion 1.1 may fail to understand UNC (\\server\share) paths in 
> some
> cases where Subversion 1.0 would work. A fix is being discussed on the
> Subversion lists at the moment. If this is a showstopper for you, you may
> want to wait for a fix before upgrading from 1.0.x.
>
> Max Bowsher.


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