Re: move a subversion repository from windows to linux or solaris

Daniel L. Rall wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 23:43 +0200, nick vajberg wrote:
>
>
>>>>i think i read it once here, but i can't find it
>>>>again: is it possible to move a bdb based
>>>>repository from one operating
>>>>system to another?
>>>>
>>>>
>>Yes. But the proper way of doing it is through a
>>dump/load cycle.
>>
>>
>
>And I'd guess that is only necessary if the "endian-ness" of the OS
>differs (e.g. Linux vs. Solaris).
>
>
Except that BDB environment files (those __db.00?) contain
reperesentations of in-memory structures that are different between
OSes, so you have to delete them.

-- Brane

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Received on Thu Jul 14 05:01:01 2005