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Re: Re-deltify in 1.2.0

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-06-03 21:43:14 CEST

On Jun 2, 2005, at 5:07 PM, Mark wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently installed 1.1.4 of svn and am loving it, only to find
> out that 1.2.0 was just released! In the release notes it says
> that the repository is now using the xdelta differencing algorithm
> (instead of vdelta). It mentions "Note: There's a small trade off
> between speed and disk space. If you choose to re-deltify your
> whole repository using xdelta, its size will grow by roughly 10 to
> 15 percent." How do I "re-deltify" the repository? Do I have to
> export/backup the repository from 1.1.4 and them import it back
> into 1.2.0? Or is there a conversion utility? Thanks for your help.

Read the paragraph just before the one you're quoting:

"The xdelta algorithm is much faster at reconstructing older files,
and thus there's motivation to dump and reload your existing
repository. If you do this, you forcibly re-compress all repository
history using the xdelta algorithm, resulting in a noticeable speedup
in operations that ask the server to reconstruct older data..."

So you just need to dump and load.

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