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Re: wc-ng on trunk: what you need to know

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:22:56 +0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)

Hyrum K. Wright wrote on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 at 19:57 -0500:
>
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
> > Hyrum K. Wright wrote on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 at 13:08 -0500:
> > > Existing (pre-wc-ng) trunk working copies are format 11. This format
> > > is not supported moving forward, and you will need to either downgrade
> > > to format 10 (supported by 1.6.x) or upgrade to format 12.
> >
> > How do I upgrade or downgrade a wc from format 11?
> >
> > (the one I want to upgrade is my svn trunk wc. the one I want to
> > downgrade is another wc I stupidly used the wrong trunk version on.)
>
> Upgrade can be accomplished by running 'svn cleanup'. Any Subversion command
> run on the working copy should tell you to do this before the working copy is
> usable with Subversion 1.7.
>

Oh, okay. You said that 11 was no longer supported, so I wasn't sure
whether upgrading from it was supported.

> Downgrade is (theoretically) supported by change-svn-wc-format.py, thought I
> have not tested this method.
>

I have. And nothing seems to have changed since then:

% svn log -l1 https://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/client-side/change-svn-wc-format.py
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r37262 | danielsh | 2009-04-14 20:49:18 +0300 (Tue, 14 Apr 2009) | 9 lines

Using change-svn-wc-format.py to downgrade a format-11 (1.7-dev) wc to
format-10 (1.6) causes some properties to disappear. Document that such
downgrades are not supported.

....
------------------------------------------------------------------------

> -Hyrum

Thanks,

Daniel
(I'll re-checkout with 1.6 then)

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