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Re: SVN 1.5.1 creates svn:mergeinfo properties with svn-1.4 repo

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 02:34:13 -0500

On Aug 6, 2008, at 02:13, Michael Reinelt wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt schrieb:
>
>> On Aug 6, 2008, at 00:31, Michael Reinelt wrote:
>>
>>> from what I've been told, a subversion-1.5 client should not
>>> create the
>>> svn:mergeinfo property when used with a svn-1.4 repo.
>>>
>>>
>>> I got:
>>>
>>> lizard.trisoft.local:/MRK # svn --version
>>> svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
>>> compiled Jul 24 2008, 20:53:51
>>>
>>> lizard.trisoft.local:/MRK # cat /svnroot/MRK/format
>>> 5
>>>
>>> I hope that "format 5" is svn-1.4 repo...
>>
>> I just tried it out. The value "5" will be in the file $REPO/format
>> regardless of whether the repo was created with Subversion 1.4 or
>> 1.5.
>>
>> The file $REPO/db/format is more informative however. With Subversion
>> 1.4, this file contains:
>>
>> 2
>>
>> but with 1.5, it contains:
>>
>> 3
>> layout sharded 1000
>
> the db/format contains "2" here, so it's really a 1.4 repo.

And I too have seen the svn 1.5.x client add the svn:mergeinfo
property on a repository hosted by svn 1.4.x, e.g.:

http://trac.macports.org/changeset/38775

You can see that this repository is served by Subversion 1.4.x via
the footer printed here:

http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/

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