Re: [fetchmail-devel] FYI: recovered SVN repository

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> I don't know what caused it. I aborted a commit that would have been too
> broad, if this cause the SVN server stuff to die from SIGPIPE or
> something, that might explain it - but I have no idea how to reproduce
> this.

Makes sense.

> > Ah, in that case I have a book on that to sit down with.  It's changed
> > a lot since I last worked with it.
>
> SVN uses the "transactional" store so it can recover from write errors
> or application crashes or server crashes. This stuff dates back to at
> least Berkeley DB 3.2.

Heh, the last time I did any programming with Berkeley DB was in 1997.
I think it was around the transition from version 1.something to 2.0.

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