Re: Dealing with very old repo format (version 1)

For future reference: if svnadmin is version 1.9 or newer, it should
have the 'info' subcommand, which will display both the repository
format and the FS format.

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9#svnadmin-info

Daniel
(1.9 hasn't been released yet, as of this writing)

Andrew Reedick wrote on Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 21:03:12 +0000:
> Does anyone have any tips on how to upgrade a very old repo? The db/format lists "1". A 1.8 svn client cannot hotcopy, dump or "svnadmin upgrade" such an old repo, all of which fail with "svnadmin: E720002: Can't open file 'devel\db\current': The system cannot find the file specified."
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> Do I need find a really old svn client (1.3?) and upgrade? Do I need to manually create the db/current file?
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> Supposedly , a format of "1" is from pre-svn 1.0. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.h -> "Formats 0, 1 and 2 were pre-1.0."
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Received on 2015-04-30 01:08:09 CEST