> From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 5:41 PM
>> Sander Striker wrote:
>>>>> Oh, yes: one other thing to worry about here are dump/load cycles. If
>>>>> you use node id's instead of paths, then the dumper has to convert them
>>>>> to paths and the loader has to convert back, because node IDs aren't
>>>>> preserved across a reload.
>>
>> But that won't help for remote repositories. You don't even know when a
>> remote repository will be dumped/loaded and you might be stuck with IDs
>> that are invalid afterwards.
>
> Or we could simply declare that the UUID defines the repository; if the
> UUID changes, it's arguably no longer the same repository (and such a
> change would cause problems for more than just merges, anyway). That's
> why "svnadmin load" has an option to restore the UUID from the dump file.
With IDs I was referring to NODECHANGE ids.
Sander
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Received on Fri Apr 11 19:51:08 2003