Stefan Sperling wrote on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 at 13:24 -0000:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:18:55PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Stefan Sperling wrote on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 at 12:52 -0000:
> > > For all x and y in [0...6] inclusive:
> > > Downgrade from svn 1.x to svn 1.y -> decrease format number appropriately.
> > > Upgrade from svn 1.x to svn 1.y -> increase format number appropriately.
> > >
> > The script doesn't support downgrading to (or upgrading from) svn 1.3
> > and earlier formats.
>
> So I should have said:
>
> For all x and y in [4...6] inclusive:
>
> In which case creating an empty file is enough I'd say, because
> all these versions of Subversion just ignore the file (except 1.6.0).
>
Still, it's nice to be consistent when the consistency doesn't cost
much. (The script already knows the magic numbers.) However, the only
API-conformant argument I have is "svn <=1.3 will give a better error
message", so perhaps it doesn't matter.
> Stefan
>
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