Hi Everyone,
Interesting issue that's been raised to me. We have SmartSVN 7 (1.7) Foundation edition installed on windows 7 32 bit machines. Users have been using locally mapped drives to access data with the older version smartsvn version 1.6, why? apparently that helps them with the documentation side of things?! it appears all the users download the whole the SVN repo to the local machine.
we have now migrated from a 1.6 subversion installed on a windows 7 machine to a dedicated server running windows 2008 r2 and VisualSVN. Its allowed us to cut down on admin time.
So that i guess is enough background..... my problem. (if it can be called that)
apparently the mapped drive (S:\) which is a locally shared folder (\\somerandompc\SVN) within the users my documents (e.g. c:\users\%username%\documents\SVN\.....) is no longer allowing users to right click in the folder and add and commit. while in the S:\ however if you right click in the local folder or a windows SVN library it works fine.
So to clarify yes right click works with the s:\ but once you click add or commit it does nothing.
so does SmartSVN 7 (SVNversion 1.7) not work with mapped drives?
I always understood that SVN worked on the principle that you would use your local drive (generally c:\) and that yes in previous version it could work over a network share it was a bad practice. However this way of working is in fact a grey area or possibly a bug?
any suggestions \ ammo would be appreciated before I go in battle :-)
Interesting issue that's been raised to me. We have SmartSVN 7 (1.7) Foundation edition installed on windows 7 32 bit machines. Users have been using locally mapped drives to access data with the older version smartsvn version 1.6, why? apparently that helps them with the documentation side of things?! it appears all the users download the whole the SVN repo to the local machine.
we have now migrated from a 1.6 subversion installed on a windows 7 machine to a dedicated server running windows 2008 r2 and VisualSVN. Its allowed us to cut down on admin time.
So that i guess is enough background..... my problem. (if it can be called that)
apparently the mapped drive (S:\) which is a locally shared folder (\\somerandompc\SVN) within the users my documents (e.g. c:\users\%username%\documents\SVN\.....) is no longer allowing users to right click in the folder and add and commit. while in the S:\ however if you right click in the local folder or a windows SVN library it works fine.
So to clarify yes right click works with the s:\ but once you click add or commit it does nothing.
so does SmartSVN 7 (SVNversion 1.7) not work with mapped drives?
I always understood that SVN worked on the principle that you would use your local drive (generally c:\) and that yes in previous version it could work over a network share it was a bad practice. However this way of working is in fact a grey area or possibly a bug?
any suggestions \ ammo would be appreciated before I go in battle :-)