Locking: repos upgrades?

We have a standing promise that "no dump/loads will be necessary until
2.0". That means no fs schema changes.

But I'm a bit fuzzy on how this promise interacts with the repos/format
file.

Specifically, svn 1.2 will now have two new BDB tables (and FSFS will
also have grow some new data storage). How are users going to upgrade
to 1.2 smoothly?

1. I seem to recall that when we added the 'uuids' table, there was
some magic code that instantly created the table if not present. Do we
need to repeat that technique?

2. Are we allowed to increment the 'format' file? I'd certainly like
to. Otherwise, a process using libsvn_fs 1.1 can create a lock, but
then a process using libsvn_fs 1.0 would silently ignore the lock
without realizing it. Does incrementing 'format' break our
compatibility promises?

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Received on Fri Nov 19 18:30:30 2004