There should not be anything to be concerned about. It will work fine
with a 1.3 client.
Mark
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:17 AM, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I had everything setup nice and clean. I have Subversion 1.5
> installed as my server, and finally got the last project converted
> over to Subversion.
> However, our build machine is using Subversion 1.3. It's an old SUSE
> Linux installation, and we simply couldn't get a more recent revision
> of Subversion to work on it. Not without updating Apache, APR, Neon,
> and who knows what else. Heck, it took us a week just to get
> Subversion 1.3 running, so upgrading isn't an option right now.
> Now, here's the problem: Everything seemed to work our nicely. Our
> build machine (running 1.3) is able via Hudson to checkout the code
> and do a build. It can do labeling via Hudson. It looks good.
> However, one of our developers noticed that our Server (running
> Subversion 1.5) has only DB format 2 on it. He tried a "svn log -g"
> and got the following error message:
>
> svn: Querying mergeinfo requires version 3 of the FSFS filesystem
> schema; filesystem '/solbright/svn_repositories/dev/db' uses only
> version 2.
>
> I can run svnadmin upgrade on the Subversion repository, and in
> seconds, get it to be upgraded to db format version 3. I've tried this
> on a back of our server with no problems.
>
> The question I have are possible side effects on our build server
> running Subversion 1.3. I know that this build server can't do merge
> tracking, but I don't really need to worry about that. I simply want
> to know if there would be any side effect upgrading our repository to
> DB format version 3. All this subversion client has to do is checkout
> the code, work with Hudson, and do labeling. There's no real
> development that takes place on it.
>
> From what limited testing I'm doing, it all looks okay. I just want
> some confirmation that I won't be blowing everything up if I do the
> upgrade.
>
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> David Weintraub
> qazwart_at_gmail.com
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Mark Phippard
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