Re: Script to obliterate the most recent revision(s)

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:04 +0000:
> I wonder if it would be possible to say: Run 'svnadmin freeze $SHELL';
> therein delete 'db/current', the revision files, and txns; restart all
> reader processes; exit that subshell and run 'svnadmin recover'. This
> would save the admin from having to manually run 'recover'. Between

I meant:

... from having to manually effect the changes to db/current and rep-cache.db
that 'recover' effects.

> 'freeze' exiting and 'recover' grabbing the write lock, no writes will
> happen (because there's no db/current file and no extant svn_fs_t handle
> had been opened while a db/current file was existing) and any reads (if
> they don't trip on failure to initialise ffd->youngest_rev_cache) would
> be harmless.
Received on 2018-03-23 07:12:43 CET