Re: [PATCH]Upgrading pre svn1.2 repositories to svn 1.6 fails(upgrading to 1.5 succeeds though!)

On Mar 30, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Kamesh Jayachandran wrote:

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> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> Do we support upgrade version-hopping like this? I was under the
>> impression that to upgrade from 1.X to 1.X+2, you'd better go through
>> 1.X+1.
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> What if somebody is *not* interested in 1.X and continue using old
> 1.X-1
> and suddenly needs 1.X+1 badly, so why not he upgrade directly?
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> In any case atleast we should detect leap upgrades and take meaningful
> upgrade path or atleast suggest something useful instead of vague
> error.

Sure. I'm not saying we shouldn't support it, I'm just that I didn't
know we currently do support that upgrade path. (And if somebody
really did want to jump several repository formats ahead, they are
probably better off doing a dump/load.)

-Hyrum

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Received on 2009-03-30 16:28:51 CEST