[svk-users] Can copying the svk depot cause weird problems?

[Jesse Vincent]

On May 23, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Dan Shryock wrote:

> As we started using svk, a fellow developer and I started using the
> same svk depot by copying it from my system to his.

yep. every subversion repository (including the one inside svk) has a  
unique id. svk uses those ids to make choices about when you last  
pulled, etc

It's kept in .svk/local/db/uuid

I don't know the full consequences to just changing it. clkao?

>
>
> Since then we have seen strange things occurring like committed code
> being overwritten with an svk pull.
>
> Right now if I do a svk diff of //project/mirroredtrunk to
> //project/localbranch I am seeing changes that look like I will revert
> code that he has written, and pushed to the shared svn server.
>
> I am completely ok if copying a depot is a problem, and the best
> solution is to rebuild one of our depot files. I just want to make
> sure that the problems we are encountering will be fixed by changing
> one of our depot files before we make any assumptions.  Any insight as
> to the cause of these problems and the best solution would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Dan
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