Improvements to bump-to-19.py are flying in... get the latest version
before you use it.
If it fails in the "deleting ..." phase, it's done the migration work so
you should be able to recover simply by deleting all remaining .svn dirs
manually (carefully avoiding the root one of course.)
- Julian
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:02 +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> BACK UP YOUR WC before proceeding.
>
> When you upgrade to r991236 or later, single-DB (format 19) is enabled.
> If you're running trunk and using it for your WCs, you'll need to
> upgrade those WCs before svn will let you continue to use them.
>
> Currently the upgrade from format 18 is performed by
> tools/dev/wc-ng/bump-to-19.py.
>
> CAUTION: It's just a hacky script and it has some very rough edges. In
> particular, it will assimilate any versioned directory, *including
> things like externals that it shouldn't touch*. If you have any
> externals, you must delete them (the populated directories, not the
> properties) before running the script, and then run "svn update" to get
> them back again afterwards.
>
> - Julian
>
>
Received on 2010-08-31 19:11:25 CEST