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Created attachment 115452 [details] Dialog box in NetBeans 7.1 The dialog box which pop-us the first time a user of NetBeans 7.1 touches a local checkout of Subversion version 1.7 is attached here. The text may be confusing to some users and is worth improving in 7.1.1. Proposed improvement: TITLE: Subversion Working Copy Format (excluding the word "unsupported") TEXT: Subversion working copy at "$PATH" is in version 1.7 format or newer and this format requires that the IDE switches from the default Svnkit client to CLI client. Click OK if you want the IDE to use the CLI Subversion client for repositories that use Subversion 1.7. You will be able to download and install the update for the Svnkit client supporting the new 1.7 format from the Update Center when it is available and restore it as the default.
(In reply to comment #0) > Click OK if you want the IDE to use the CLI Subversion client for > repositories that use Subversion 1.7. This sounds to me like I'll be still using svnkit on 1.6 working copies after the switch... This may be very misleading. Once I switch to 1.7 CLI client, it's used all the time then. If I try to work with a project which is a 1.6 working copy, every action is going to fail with a message that working copy is out of date and needs to be upgraded.
I'll create a FAQ online that describes the issue in more detail and lists the possible risks the user might get into (among others the issue about old outdated working copies).
the FAQ page: http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSubversion1_7#Opening_a_1.7_Working_Copy Review and edit it eventually.
Proposing the following wording option: Subversion working copy at "$PATH" is in version 1.7 (or later) format which requires the IDE to be switched from the default Svnkit client to CLI client. To use the CLI Subversion client for Subversion 1.7 repositories, click OK. See Subversion 1.7 FAQ (http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSubversion1_7) for more information.
So if I understand correctly, if the user clicks OK to use the CLI client, all local checkouts will need to be updated to 1.7?
(In reply to comment #5) > So if I understand correctly, if the user clicks OK to use the CLI client, all > local checkouts will need to be updated to 1.7? True, all svn checkouts need to be upgraded to 1.7 format. Otherwise NetBeans will be unable to work with that chackout and will raise an error message.
So I would suggest the following text: TITLE: Subversion Working Copy Format TEXT: The Subversion working copy at "$PATH" is version 1.7 format (or later). The IDE needs to set the CLI client as the default instead of the Svnkit client to work with Subversion 1.7 repositories. When the new Svnkit client is available you can download the update from the Update Center and restore the Svnkit client as the default. To set the CLI Subversion client as the default for all Subversion repositories, click OK. See Subversion 1.7 FAQ (http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSubversion1_7) for more information.
If there are no other comments, i will integrate Ken's proposal tomorrow.
fix: http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/f0137a12376d
verified in trunk
7.1.1 fix: http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/rev/0958ed09c9d7
Integrated into 'releases', will be available in build *201202082200* or newer. Wait for official and publicly available build. Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/rev/0958ed09c9d7 User: Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec@netbeans.org> Log: #208017 - Improve message asking user to use CLI for Svn 1.7 #208017 - Improve message asking user to use CLI for Svn 1.7 (transplanted from f0137a12376dd39f8707c8bafca0b48fca5dda3e)
Looks very understandable to me now. The wiki content is also very useful. Thanks!
verified in 7.1.1