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Re: How to migrate to Single DB per WC

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:24:32 -0400

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:33, Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>...
> The auto-upgrade code, currently used for 1.7-dev to 1.7-dev, is invoked
> when opening a versioned directory:
>...
> So a possible way is:
>
>  * bump_to_19() needs to migrate the contents of the SDB (and pristine
> store) down into the WC-root SDB, and delete the SDB (and pristine
> store), or do nothing if it is the WC-root SDB.
>
>  * svn_wc__db_pdh_create_wcroot() needs to return not a new wcroot_t
> object but a pointer to the existing one for the real WC-root, except of
> course when it is creating the real WC-root object.
>
>  * And in which function will we search for and find the WC root
> directory?  I can't see us using any of the existing functions such as
> svn_wc__db_is_wcroot(), svn_wc__strictly_is_wc_root(), because they all
> invoke svn_wc__db_pdh_parse_local_abspath().

I suspect that it might be too messy to have the auto-upgrade code
manage this process. It finds an SDB, auto-upgrades, but then has to
find one again?

Much of the flow would be bastardized to handle this case.

I'd suggest that we simply force it to be a manual upgrade.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2010-07-08 19:25:11 CEST

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