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Philipp Marek | 29 Oct 13:37

[ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.1.17 released

Hello everybody,

it's finally time to announce a new version.

There have been a lot of internal changes (again); and that did take most
of the time, because I had to shatter many hours of thinking into many
small half-hour pieces, and that means a lot of wasted time.

I hope to put the next version out sooner; it should have more user-visible
(and fewer internal) changes.
And that's already the keyword - the next version will feature some
incompatibilities, and will duly be noted 1.2.0, or even 2.0. Time (and the
next release announcement) will tell.

Well, back to more mundane matters - what did change since 1.1.16?

There are some additional features:
- New "uncopy" command, to disambiguate "revert" on copied and changed
  entries. Manually added or "prop-set" entries are kept known.
- New option "all_removed", to trim the output for deleted hierarchies.
- New option "config_dir", important for https connections with client
  certificate authentication.
- New command "delay", for use in scripts.
- New command "rel-ignore"; this converts the given ($PWD-local) shell
  patterns to working copy root relative.
- New "fsvs cat" command, to fetch really pristine copies from the
  repository.
- A new flag for ignore patterns, for matching directories only.
- And a way for ignore patterns to match the entries' mode; so eg.
  world-unreadable files can easily be ignored.
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Peter Rabbitson | 29 Oct 13:50

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.1.17 released

Philipp Marek wrote:
> 
>  ...
> 
> To avoid angry (or curious) questions, I'll add what I'd like to see in the
> next version - and why that'll make FSVS incompatible with 1.1.x (and
> 1.0.x, of course).
> - The WAA and CONF layout will change a bit:
>   - The URL list will move to the WAA.
>   - The filename hashing may currently produce collisions, if you're using
>     nested working copies.
> - I'm planning to enhance the (current) ignore patterns to "groupings",
>   which would also serve to provide svn's "auto-props" feature.
>   Then world-unreadable entries can be ignored, or can be sent encrypted
>   to the repository.

yay! \o/

Thank you for the wonderful software Philipp. Looking forward to the new
features, easy way to encrypt stuff on the fly has been a major
show-stopper for me. If you need any help with testing/brainstorming -
please by all means drop me a line.

Cheers
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Maurice van der Pot | 2 Nov 17:52

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.1.17 released

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:39:31PM +0100, Philipp Marek wrote:
> There have been a lot of internal changes (again);  

Looks like you're right about this release fixing the problem I was
seeing. I've now been able to get everything updated and committed
without problems.

Thanks,
Maurice.

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Philipp Marek | 2 Nov 18:05

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.1.17 released

Hello Maurice!

On Sunday 02 November 2008 Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:39:31PM +0100, Philipp Marek wrote:
> > There have been a lot of internal changes (again);
>
> Looks like you're right about this release fixing the problem I was
> seeing. I've now been able to get everything updated and committed
> without problems.
Good to hear!

Thank you for this notice.

Regards,

Phil

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Sheldon Hearn | 16 Nov 12:54
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.1.17 released


On Wednesday 29 October 2008 14:39:31 Philipp Marek wrote:
> it's finally time to announce a new version.

Regrettably, Lenny (the next release of Debian Linux) was frozen prior 
to the release of fsvs-1.1.17.  This means that the release is not 
accepting new upstream releases at this time.  So Debian Lenny will 
ship with 1.1.16 (plus any critical and security bugfixes that come 
along).

This is the downside of distributions with rigorous quality assurance 
built into their release engineering process.

Because of the way the release engineering process works, it works out 
easier for me if fsvs-1.1.17 isn't imported into the Debian unstable 
distribution until Lenny is released.

In the meantime, impatient Debian unstable users can grab the source 
package here:

http://starjuice.net/fsvs/fsvs_1.1.17-1_i386.deb

Users of platforms other than i386 can grab the source package with:

dget http://starjuice.net/fsvs/fsvs_1.1.17-1.dsc

Chances are, this source package will build on Lenny too.

Thanks for your patience.
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Philipp Marek | 16 Nov 14:50

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.1.17 released

Hello Sheldon!

On Sunday 16 November 2008 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Regrettably, Lenny (the next release of Debian Linux) was frozen prior
> to the release of fsvs-1.1.17.  This means that the release is not
> accepting new upstream releases at this time.  So Debian Lenny will
> ship with 1.1.16 (plus any critical and security bugfixes that come
> along).
That's a pity.
Mostly because I don't have time for bugfixes of such "old" versions ...
now that 1.2.0 (or 2.0.0) is near.

> Because of the way the release engineering process works, it works out
> easier for me if fsvs-1.1.17 isn't imported into the Debian unstable
> distribution until Lenny is released.
Personally, I don't think that's a big problem - *real* users can always just 
use experimental ;-)

> In the meantime, impatient Debian unstable users can grab the source
> package here:
>
> http://starjuice.net/fsvs/fsvs_1.1.17-1_i386.deb
>
> Users of platforms other than i386 can grab the source package with:
>
> dget http://starjuice.net/fsvs/fsvs_1.1.17-1.dsc
>
> Chances are, this source package will build on Lenny too.
Thank you very much for your effort!
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Sheldon Hearn | 17 Nov 11:48
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.1.17 released


On Sunday 16 November 2008 15:50:01 Philipp Marek wrote:
> Mostly because I don't have time for bugfixes of such "old" versions
> ... now that 1.2.0 (or 2.0.0) is near.

Indeed.  Where appropriate, I'll need to backport fixes.  Fortunately, 
that's made a lot easier by the extensive test coverage. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.
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