Re: How to tell meld 1.8.0 to use SVN?

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2013-09-17, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 18 September 2013 04:57, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> > I've got a source tree that's under control by both CVS and SVN.  Meld
> > recently started to refuse to use SVN.
>
> I'm guessing from the subject that you upgraded Meld to 1.8.0?

Yes, but the same problem was present when using Meld 1.7.0.

> Also, did you perchance upgrade SVN recently?

Yes.  I now believe that's where the problem comes from.

> From your description, Meld doesn't think that there is an SVN
> repository there. The code for that did change relatively recently to
> try to support SVN 1.8, but it's difficult to see what the problem
> might be.

I think the problem is that Meld finds a CVS directory in the CWD, but
doesn't find a .svn directory in the CWD.  CVS puts a "CVS" directory
in every directory in the working copy, but SVN only puts a ".svn"
directory in the top-level directory.  IIRC, older versions of
subversion put a ".svn" directory everywhere (like CVS does with "CVS"
directories).

If Meld finds a "CVS" directory in the CWD, but doesn't find a ".svn"
directory in the CWD does it stop there, or does it continue to search
upwards for the ".svn" directory like it does when there's no "CVS"
directory?

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