> If you create a tag by running
>
> svn cp URL-of-trunk URL-of-descriptive-tag-name
>
> ... and say, this commit creates r150,
>
> ...then running 'svnadmin dump' won't suddenly create a dumpfile
> that's twice as large. Revision 150 will appear in the dumpfile as
> nothing but a single record which says "make a cheap copy of the
> trunk directory".
>
> So what exactly are you doing?
Yes, you are 100% correct. I don't know what I was doing. It's been a
while since I tried this, giving up on it because of the size issue. I
was using BDB before (now using FSFS) but I can't see how that would be
a problem.
Ron
Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Ron Gilbert wrote:
>
>> I am really starting to miss being able to tag a revision number
>> across my repository with a text identifier (for a beta release,
>> for example). I know you can create a branch and all coping is
>> lazy so it doesn't take up space, but this is not true for backups
>> (svnadmin dump). All the branches seem to be stored multiple
>> times in the backup file (my backup file doubles when I do a
>> branch).
>
>
> If you create a tag by running
>
> svn cp URL-of-trunk URL-of-descriptive-tag-name
>
> ... and say, this commit creates r150,
>
> ...then running 'svnadmin dump' won't suddenly create a dumpfile
> that's twice as large. Revision 150 will appear in the dumpfile as
> nothing but a single record which says "make a cheap copy of the
> trunk directory".
>
> So what exactly are you doing?
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Received on Wed Aug 31 18:09:53 2005