Re: Sharing SVN-Repository between Linux/x86 and WinNT

Aaron Optimizer Digulla wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've created a repository on a Memory stick under Linux and
>then tried to checkout the contents on WinNT but I just
>get the message that the DB is corrupt and that I must
>use the DB utils to recover it.
>
>Isn't it possible to access the same repository from Windows
>and Linux (for example via NFS or Samba)?
>
>Doesn't the DB store its files in binary mode?
>
>
Binary mode has nothing to do with it. Berkeley DB databases can not be
used on different platforms. You must use a portable dump format to move
them, either using BDB's db_dump/db_load utils, or (for an SVN
repository) our svnadmin dump/svnadmin load.

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Brane ÄŒibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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