Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:48:25 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion/CVS experiment summary Message-ID: <20040212164236.D96890@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040209185105.O72949@fw.reifenberger.com> References: <200402091130.05656.craig@tobuj.gank.org> <20040209185105.O72949@fw.reifenberger.com>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > Hi, > first, this seems to be a good analysis of SVN and a good > starting point for thinking about moving away from CVS. I missed the original thread here, so this point may have already been made ... but ... we tried to use subversion for a project recently, and made a *big* mistake of upgrading to a newer version from what we started with ... and could no longer access the repository ... apparently there is a 'dump / reload' procedure that we weren't aware of at the time, but this is something that should be watched for ... >From the INSTALL file: Version 0.34.0 (released 3 December 2003, from revision r7859) http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/0.34.0 ##################################################################### ## WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ## ##################################################################### ## ## ## This release makes an incompatible change to the Subversion ## ## database. Repositories created with versions of Subversion ## ## prior to 0.34 will not work with Subversion 0.34. ## ## To upgrade, first use 'svnadmin dump' with your existing ## ## Subversion binaries. Then upgrade your binaries to 0.34, and ## ## use 'svnadmin load' to create a new repository from your ## ## dumpfile. ## ## Don't forget to copy any custom configuration/hooks from the ## ## old to the new repository. ## ## ## ##################################################################### note that this was pre-0.34, but since its still "under development", there is always the chance that this happens again ... a load of the system took 49hrs, I believe was mentioned ... how long to dump/reload the system once its already "in subvsersion" format? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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