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Re: Is it safe to delete mergeinfo.db?

From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev_at_farside.org.uk>
Date: 2007-09-19 21:24:06 CEST

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:53:54PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
> > So ... can I safely nuke mergeinfo.db? For what it's worth, I made a
> > hotcopy of my repo, deleted the mergeinfo.db from that hotcopy, and
> > ran "svn log -g" on it; it completed with no errors.
>
> Yes you did already send. Dan Rall indicated you can just delete the
> .db file and it will be created again the next time something needs to
> write to it.
>

Will it be recreated _empty_, or will it be repopulated with the
existing mergeinfo data? (I assume we need the latter behaviour
somewhere anyway (though perhaps we're planning to make it explicit),
since we'll nee some way of migrating pre-1.5-era-svnmerge.py
properties?)

Regards,
Malcolm

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