RE: When to upgrade repository format number?

I understand why we may want to avoid the unexpected overhead of an
automatic upgrade to version 4, but what's the disadvantage of having
"svnadmin create" build *new* repositories in format 4?

Steve Dwire
 

-----Original Message-----
From: kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net [mailto:kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net]
On Behalf Of kfogel@collab.net
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 5:04 PM
To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: When to upgrade repository format number?

kfogel@tigris.org writes:

[snip]

Some unanswered questions:

   * Would 'svnadmin create' create format 4 or format 3 repositories
     in 1.2?

   * If format 3, would 'svnadmin create' take a new option to
     indicate that you want locking from the beginning?

   * If format 3, would we move the silent auto-creation of the
     locking tables/hooks/etc to become part of 'svnadmin upgrade',
     instead of part of the default 1.2 code as they are now?

One possible response is: "This is nice, but too complex. Let's just
unconditionally upgrade repositories to 4, and create new ones at 4.
Admins should be reading the release notes carefully anyway!"

If that's the way we want to go, then we don't have to do anything,
because that's how the current code behaves.

Finally, note that our compatibility guidelines permit both ways.

-Karl

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Received on Sat Mar 12 00:36:57 2005