Re: [Axiom-developer] SVN problems

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> my major problem is that svn appears to have lost my work.
> the WHOLE point of version control is NEVER to lose work.
> thus SVN appears to miss the main reason it exists.
>
> clearly this must be something i'm doing wrong
> but after twice reading the docs and much frustration
> i give up.

Why don't you ask for help at the axiom-developer mailing list?
If you tell what you want to achieve, maybe someone is giving you the 
right commands and you could save your time instead of reading the 
svn-book several times. You probably only need 3 or 4 commands with any 
SCM. But it's always better if someone tells you what and how to use it.

And I believe you are wrong. It's not svn that gets the binary wrong.
I did the following, and the picture was ok. I would have been very much 
surprised if the Subversion people made such a big mistake for a .jpg 
file that very much looks binary.
svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /home/hemmecke/scratch/SVNMYTEST 

cd ~/scratch
mkdir axiom
cd axiom
cp ~/OTHER/Axiom/axiom--main--1--patch-50/axiom* .
svn import . file:///home/hemmecke/scratch/SVNMYTEST/AXIOM
Adding  (bin)  axiomicon.png
Adding  (bin)  axiom30yr.jpg
Adding  (bin)  axiomsml.png
Adding  (bin)  axiomlogo.jpg

Committed revision 1.
cd ~/scratch
svn co file:///home/hemmecke/scratch/SVNMYTEST/AXIOM ax
A    ax/axiomicon.png
A    ax/axiom30yr.jpg
A    ax/axiomsml.png
A    ax/axiomlogo.jpg
Checked out revision 1.
display ax/axiom30yr.jpg

Anyway the difference of the pictures from Gold and Silver/trunk is a 
translation of 0x0d to 0x0a in several places.

Maybe the picture is already broken in CVS and was wrongly moved from 
CVS to SVN?

Ralf