Re: Hot backup changes

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:27:44AM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
> cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>...
> > Actually, a really simple script that wrapped `svnlook log old-repos' and
> > `svnadmin setlog new-repos' could do the trick, I imagine. Both
> > operations are pretty darn fast.
>
> True, but on the current svn repository, that would mean forking at
> least 3000 processes, which is too many.

No way. That is the time to pull out the Perl or Python bindings and do this
stuff through scripting.

> How about adding a new table to the repository that just stores a
> binary flag indicating for a particular revision if the log message
> has been modified. Then we can have several new svnadmin commands
> (these aren't the best names)

+1 on Mike's tongue-in-cheek revocation of Blair's commit privs

:-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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