Hmm …

Posted Nov 9, 2018 19:53 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Hmm … by mgedmin
Parent article: Apache Subversion 1.11.0 released

One class in college had a shared SVN repo for the whole class. Some enterprising soul managed to commit `.svn` to the repo. How? I have no idea. But the server was decided unhappy with the situation.

Hmm …

Posted Nov 9, 2018 22:07 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I once spent some time using git-svn to work with an ancient subversion server (for practical reasons - the git clone was much smaller on disk and `git commit` was about 15 minutes faster than `svn ci`).

That didn't last unfortunately; somehow it led to the svn server writing corrupt metadata to its own DB that it couldn't read, and I ended up spending a day to repair it by hand.

(Maybe this anecdote says more about the working conditions at that gig than SVN, but it was still an unpleasant bug to run into.)