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Re: Proposal: Change repository's UUID over RA layer

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:06:40 +0200

On 06.08.2010 19:26, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> wrote:
>
>> Ahem. You guys have forgotten about Justin's RW-master/RO-slave
>> replication hack, which *requires* the slave repositories to have the
>> same UUID as the master. And that 'svnadmin load' has both --ignore-uuid
>> and --force-uuid.
>>
> When doing any master/slave initial configuration, doing a local
> 'svnadmin setuuid' should be sufficient. IOW, I don't see that use
> case as driving this need. -- justin
>

Exatly. And while that's being done locally, one might just as well do
the whole 'svnadmin load' which can implicitly set the UUID. Which means
we don't need an 'svnadmin setuuid' since loading a dump is pretty much
the only time one might reasonably want to change the repository UUID, IMHO.

-- Brane
Received on 2010-08-06 20:07:22 CEST

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