On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:48 +0000, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:55:29AM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 08:47 -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> > > I agree. The dumpfile format should continue to use the most widely
> > > handled formats until the format itself *needs* to be bump in order to
> > > carry information that the existing format cannot carry. A switch from
> > > svndiff0 to svndiff1 in the dumpfile format is not necessary, and
> > > therefore should not not occur at all. If we want to provide a
> > > --svndiff1 option to 'svnadmin dump', that's fine with me -- at least
> > > folks will have to work a little harder to hurt themselves.
> >
> > I have absolutely no strong feelings on the issue because we have made
> > incompatible changes to the dump format before, with no backwards
> > compatibility option (though maybe this occurred before 1.0).
> >
>
> Yes, the --deltas option was introduced in 1.1.0, and produces dumps
> that can't be read by 1.0.x. For 1.4.0, we could introduce dumpfile
> format version 4 (and specify that it always contains svndiff1 deltas),
> but I don't think we would want to make it the default.
Okay .......
>
> Sounds like we should at the least switch back to svndiff0 deltas for
> the current delta dumps. Any objections to me doing that now?
Not from me.
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Received on Wed Feb 8 18:09:32 2006