Re: [Issue 1585] Deltified dumps for archival and schema conversion

Greg Hudson wrote:

> Actually, it's more complicated than that. See
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/skip-deltas for the gory
> details.
>
> I've thought about making a dump format variation which stores the
> actual deltas present in the database, and which can be loaded without
> recomputing all the deltas, but it didn't seem worth the complexity and
> architectural impurity. And it wouldn't help with CVS conversion, since
> the deltas stored in CVS are still much too foreign. (Different delta
> algorithm, different delta bases.)

Thanks for the explanation. The real reason then for the dump file format
genericity (and the dump/load process slowness) is that different
backends have different db schema. This genericity makes dump/load useless
for large svn repositories unfortunately :(.

Mikhail

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Received on Wed Jun 23 18:58:37 2004