Re: get version of repository

SteveKing wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Right now subversion doesn't provide a function to
> get the version of a repository (or I havent' found
> one). I already checked the mailing list and the issue
> tracker but found nothing.

svn_repos_open will check the repository version. However, up to now, we
have never changed the version number: the schema changed too many
times, and we do have a pre-1.0 compatibility policy documetned.

> I would like that both server and client would exchange
> those version information on connect. That way
> both server and client could check if they are still
> compatible and error out if they are not (I guess it will
> always be the newest versioned part (server or client) which
> will know if it's compatible or not).

I think it might be a bit more complicated than that. Server and client
should exchange a list of capabilities, like they do in ra_svn.

> This would make problems with incompatibilities non-existent
> because a clear error message (e.g. "you need to update your
> client to access this server") will prevent the user from
> corrupting something in the repository/working copy.

Well, that wouldn't make incompatibilities non-existent. :-)
I also don't believe it's viable before 1.0, or at least until our final
FS schema changes go in. Right now, the compatibility rule we have (one
version etither way) is the best we can do, IMHO. Server admins should
just make sure that people are using new enough clients.

(Personally, I only had to go through one update till now; moved 30
people from 0.14.1 to 0.21.0, with no problems at all.)

> Also, for local repositories (no server) the client should be
> able to check with which version the db was built and
> especially with which version of the berkeley db it
> was built and at least warn the user if those don't match.

This is already done, both at compile time and at run time. the FS layer
will error out if it's running under a different BDB version than it was
compiled against.

> Maybe create a file with those version numbers in it
> when calling svn_repos_create() which could be read out?

The BDB version numbers? But that's entirely the FS's business, isn't it?

> I guess this file would then have to be updated when
> doing an svnadmin dump/load?

I don't understand this. We already have a dump format version in the
dump file. The dump format is theoretically independent of the FS schema.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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