Have you tried using svnadmin dump & then a svadmin load ?
B
Lang Stefan wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am stuck with a somewhat unusual problem: while evaluating
> subversion for use in our team I started using it locally for my own
> development issues. Now our IT department has installed and configured
> svnserve as a subversion server for us, but unfortunately they used an
> older version, 1.3.2 for their own reasons.
>
> The newer clients and TortoiseSVN can work with the older server well
> enough, but now I cannot access my repository anymore. I get the
> following error message:
>
> "Error * Expected format '3' of repository; found format '5'"
>
> After reading some release notes I found out that in version 1.4, both
> the client side and the server repository changed formats.
>
> Now I would like to transfer my own repository including it's history
> information into the new one, but don't quite know where to start. I
> can still access the old repository by starting a server daemon
> locally, but am somewhat reluctant to just go ahead and try something.
> I'm afraid I might lose some data on the way if I'm not careful.
>
> If someone can point me to the right chapters in the subversion book
> (or better yet, within the tortoise documentation which is a bit
> closer to the windows user level) that would be fine. I did find some
> info so far, but never found any hints as to the possible effects of
> switching to an older repository format.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> P.S.: I did try searching the forum, but couldn't locate a topic
> dealing with backward conversion (I might have used the wrong search
> pattern though)
>
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Received on Thu Feb 22 23:21:53 2007