Re: Upgrading to 1.3.2: "svnadmin: File already exists"

Mark Phippard <markp@softlanding.com> wrote on 08/17/2006 12:56:20 PM:

> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on 08/17/2006 12:45:00 PM:
>
> > On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > >
> > > Optimize? Not sure what you mean there. If you dump an FSFS
> > > repository and then reload it into a new FSFS repository, I'd expect
> > > the two repositories to be byte-for-byte identical. It's not like
> > > there's some sort of defragmentation going on. :-)
> >
> > Counterexample: If you're upgrading to 1.4, you want to dump and load
> > your repository (regardless of format) to re-encode all the diffs in
> > svndiff1.
>
> Likewise, in 1.3 a dump/load would convert history from vdelta to xdelta

> which was supposed to speed up blame and some other operations.

I meant to say 1.2, but my point was just that there is some precedent for
this.

Mark

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