[geeks] Anyone use Subversion?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:03:27PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I'm having my first experience with it for a client, on a Debian system.
>  Setting up and creating the repository went fine.  Adding the project
> codebase into the repository went fine.  Client's first major commit
> failed because .svn directories had become corrupted.  It's a known
> problem.  I set about fixing the problem by the documented workaround
> ... and ran into another known problem in which svn checkout repeatedly
> exhausts the system entropy pool and hangs.  I've been trying for a day
> and a half to get a copy of the project checked out so that I can fix
> the problem of the corrupted .svn directories.  There's a reported
> workaround for this problem, too; if svn's been built to use
> /dev/random, try moving the real /dev/random and symlinking /dev/random
> to /dev/urandom.  I've tried it.  It doesn't work.
> 
> Is this anywhere close to a typical svn experience?  Because if it is, I
> have to say that on the basis of this experience, I cannot possibly
> consider svn to be ready for production use.

I have never had a .svn directory get corrupted.  Our SVN runs on
Ubuntu.  We are using svn+ssh as the access method though.  You don't
say what you are using.