Re: Is it safe to delete mergeinfo.db?

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
> anyway to populate itself from the repository contents. It just
> creates empty as a by product of making it easy for existing
> repositories to be used with 1.5.
>

So the answer for anyone in Eric's position would be "You can delete it
as long as you're not depending upon it for anything; dump/load to make
sure", I guess.

> It seems like someone needs to show real problems and corruption in
> the database before we ought to go that far. I do not think it has

I agree, and this is something that we can do post-1.5. I'm just a
little worried about using an index that we can't recreate online,
that's all.

(Tangentally, the new 'svn mergeinfo' command -- which I assume runs off
the index -- makes things slightly better, since at least we're now able
to easily diagnose a property/index mismatch).

> If someone needs to recreate the info, shouldn't they dump/load?
>

There's no reason they should need to take the repository offline to
update an index, no.

Regards,
Malcolm