From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 12:52:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547E516A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C57B43D1F for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:52:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 12F003489C; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:48:25 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101983454B; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:48:25 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:48:25 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Michael Reifenberger In-Reply-To: <20040209185105.O72949@fw.reifenberger.com> Message-ID: <20040212164236.D96890@ganymede.hub.org> References: <200402091130.05656.craig@tobuj.gank.org> <20040209185105.O72949@fw.reifenberger.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Craig Boston cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion/CVS experiment summary X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:52:47 -0000 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