[Tilesathome] Better update mechanism

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:08:51PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+osm at cakebox.net> writes:
> 
> > I've recently seen some old bugs rear their heads long after they were
> > fixed and the version date thing updated, so I think there are some
> > ways in which clients can avoid updating.
> 
> What do you think those ways could be?
> 
> I would think svn is doing a pretty good job synchronising with the
> repository.  I don't think it is likely that svn is skipping some
> files.
> 
> What is much more likely is that users are tampering with either
> version.txt or some source files.  In the first case the client might
> never update itself and in the latter svn will try to keep the local
> edits.  Svn will only fail if there is a conflict it can not resolve.

I think it's much more likely the update mechanism isn't working than
that users are sabotaging it. Adding --subversion /bin/true to the
client command line makes it not mess up my checkout when developing.

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob+osm at cakebox.net
bobkare at irc
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