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X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 106 - /



Author: branden
Date: 2003-05-30 02:05:36 -0500 (Fri, 30 May 2003)
New Revision: 106

Modified:
   README
Log:
add info of interest to ViewCVS users of the repo


Modified: README
==============================================================================
--- README	2003-05-30 06:19:13 UTC (rev 105)
+++ README	2003-05-30 07:05:36 UTC (rev 106)
@@ -1,3 +1,35 @@
+             README for Debian X Strike Force Subversion repository
+             ------------------------------------------------------
+
+ViewCVS users:
+
+ViewCVS's support for Subversion repositories is still alpha qualities.  You
+will likely notice many problems.
+
+The biggest one is that ViewCVS doesn't know how to traverse backwards across
+copy or rename operations.  For instance, if you're trying to view the following
+URL:
+  http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tags/4.2.1-7/debian/changelog?rev=99&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
+
+You'll get an error like this:
+
+  /cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tags/4.2.1-7/debian/changelog: unknown location
+
+(Plus further error messages.)
+
+This is because revision 99 of the "changelog" file was committed before the
+Subversion copy operation that placed the debian directory into the tags/4.2.1-7
+location.  Eventually, it is expected that ViewCVS will support history
+traversal across copy and rename operations, so please be patient, and do not
+report errors of this exact sort to me, the ViewCVS Debian package maintainer,
+or to the ViewCVS upstream author(s).  All of us are well aware of the issue.
+
+You may also occasionally experience failures due to permission problems.  This
+is due to the perverity of the Berkeley DB software, and is corrected by the
+repository administrator as soon as possible.
+
+X Strike Force team members:
+
 *** IMPORTANT * IMPORTANT * IMPORTANT * IMPORTANT * IMPORTANT * IMPORTANT ***
 
 DO NOT EVER CHECK OUT OR EXPORT THE FOLLOWING PATHS WITHOUT PRIOR



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