Thanks. Ben.
It is really helpful.
Bo
On Friday, February 15, 2013, Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Bo Chen <bo.irvine.chen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, can anyone help me a little bit for these questions: How does SVN
work
>> when recovering to a desired copy, specifically, how EXACTLY SVN does by
>> combining the delta to reconstruct a desired file version.In CVS, they
>> record the delta (for text file), as well as the update information like
in
>> which lines we have an insertion/deletion. However, in SVN, do we keep
this
>> information? Otherwise, how can we restore a desired file version. For
>> example, I create one file, and make one simple insertion (insert a
>> character). The following shows the file versions and the corresponding
>> delta information in the repository. Can anyone tell me how exactly can I
>> restore the second file version by the fist file version and the delta
file
>> for the second file version? I appreciate very much for your help.
>
> The deltas are stored in svndiff format. The documentation of the
> format is stored here:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/svndiff
>
> You may find the fsfsverify.py tool handy in understanding the data
> stored in the rev files. For example the following command will show
> you the windows and instructions in the svndiff data:
> fsfsverify.py -i $REPO/db/revs2
>
> You can find fsfsverify.py here:
>
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/server-side/fsfsverify.py
>
Received on 2013-02-16 17:42:25 CET