On Thursday 07 April 2005 23:26, Ed Hillmann wrote:
> Hi all. I've got SVN 1.1.3 installed on a Linux box
> which hosts a Repository. I see that 1.1.4 has been
> released. I read the topic in the SVN book about
> migrating a repository
> (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.5),
> and I was curious if there were "changes made to the
> back-end database schema cause Subversion to be
> incompatible with previous versions of the
> repository". In other words, do I have to export out
> my repository before I upgrade my SVN installation.
No. Right now, our compatibility rules state that a dump/load would only
be required between major versions of the tools. IOW, if you were
upgrading from 1.x.x to 2.y.y, then you would need to do a dump/load.
> A further question: Are DB changes the only reason to
> migrate a repository? My repository doesn't use
> Berkeley. It uses fsfs. Is this even an issue for
> me?
I'm not sure I understand your question. I think you're trying to ask if
upgrades only involves DB changes. The answer to that is an emphatic
'No'. There are many reasons to upgrade. Bugs get fixed, security holes
get closed, performance enhancements, and of course, new functionality
(such as locking in 1.2).
FWIW, just because you use FSFS, it doesn't mean that you're going to
avoid a dump/load cycle. There may very well be incompatible schema
changes from 1.x to 2.x. But that's a little ways off, so you're fine
for the time being. :-)
-John
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Received on Fri Apr 8 11:41:07 2005