Re: TortoiseSVN status report

On 4/13/07, Sven Probst <sven.probst@ilt.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Hello Userlist,
>
> what ist the reason for the following change - are BDB repositories no longer supported by SVN ?
>
>
> - CHG: When creating a repository, always use the FSFS type. While it's no
> longer possible to create BDB repositories, it's still possible to
> access them via file:///. (Stefan)

They're still supported. We still link against the BDB dlls. But we
don't allow you to create *new* BDB repositories (you can only use
existing ones). If you create a new repository with TSVN, it will
always be an FSFS type one.

The reasons for this:
* BDB is not as reliable as FSFS
* Upgrading BDB usually means you need to do a dump/load cycle (which
is not implemented in TSVN, which means you need the CL client for
that)
* Upgrading BDB also means the repositories are not compatible anymore
with older clients (i.e., file:/// access to them only works the
clients linked against the very same BDB version, and usually also
against the same c-runtime version!!)

So, this change was done to make it easier in a later version to drop
BDB completely. But don't worry, it will take a long time until that
happens.

Stefan

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