Yeah ! :-)
So, since new dumps will be in predictable order, we will be able to do
sanity checks on every repos backups !
Thanks a lot, Cmpilato !
I love SVN ! :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmpilato@collab.net [mailto:cmpilato@collab.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 12:56 AM
> To: martinay@videotron.ca
> Cc: 'Ben Collins-Sussman'; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Quick question about "svnadmin dump"
>
>
> Martin Ayotte <martinay@videotron.ca> writes:
>
> > Very Nice Tool ! :-)
> >
> > Thanks Cmpilato ! Thanks Ben !
> >
> > (I've even used it thru pipe : svnadmin dump | normalize-dump.py >
> > ordered_revlog )
>
> Yep, this is how I intended for it to be used. It was a crucial tool
> for me when I recently decided to use an entirely new driver for the
> 'svnadmin dump' backend -- needed to make sure that the old code and
> new code generated the same output before daring to commit that
> change!
>
> > I presume it will be part of the 0.24 drops ... :-)
>
> Indeed.
>
> > Do you think it will be embedded later in svnadmin as an
> option to dump
> > command ?
> >
> > (I mean, just as you mention : sorting summary but aloong
> with actual dump
> > of the revisions)
>
> Not likely. 'svnadmin dump' should be kept as straightforward as
> possible, in my opinion.
>
> Huh...I just had a thought. You know, as of my recent change to how
> 'svnadmin dump' works, I actually think one of the side-effects was
> that the paths come outta there in a predictable, sorted order. Yeah,
> yeah, I'm almost sure of it! Wow. So, dumpfiles generated with 0.24
> and later should be already diffable, which ... means ... that I wrote
> a debugging tool whose purpose was eliminated by the very improvements
> it was used to affirm! Weird.
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