res/cardsfolder may be locked for several hours!

[Braids]

i'm presently committing a structural change to res/cardsfolder on the trunk. if you are trying to commit your own changes to one or more files in that folder, you may find yourself unable to do so.

i will post again to this thread once the commit has completed to remind everyone to run an update; although at this rate, that probably won't be for another 8-10 hours.

the change is necessary, because many people were having trouble checking out the cardsfolder due to its enormity. for details, see http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4914

[friarsol]

Many people? I thought you were the only person with the problem.

[Hellfish]

Wasn't this the cause of some of the svn script problems too?

[friarsol]

Wasn't this the cause of some of the svn script problems too?

I thought that had to do with the removal of a certain file that was used by the svn scripts? But it's possible I misunderstood.

[Braids]

other people reported some problems with checking out the cardsfolder. perhaps not to the extent that i had them especially with regard to the lock files being difficult to clean up.

windows update interrupted my commit while i was asleep. i'm going to try again right now.

[Braids]

google's svn server decided to exhibit fail halfway through the big commit, so I'm going to do have to it directory by directory. 27 commits total. sigh. new post coming to explain how to edit cards during this transitional period.

[Braids]

The new post is here.
http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4922