On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:26:54 -0400, "Duncan Murdoch"
<murdoch_at_stats.uwo.ca> said:
> Richard Shea wrote:
> > Hi - I've got an existing 1.4.x installation on windows using SVNSERVE
> > (no Apache involved) which I want to upgrade to 1.6.x.
> >
> > I've downloaded svn-win32-1.6.1.zip.
> >
> > >From various things I'd read I expected to find an installer within that
> > ZIP but there isn't one (or if there I can't find it).
> >
> > As my current installation is at E:\bin\installed\SVN\Subversion I'm
> > guessing the best approach (after stopping all SVNSERVE sessions) is to
> > delete the contents of that directory and to unzip svn-win32-1.6.1.zip
> > into that directory. I'd really just like some confirmation that this is
> > what I should do - I can't find it written down anywhere what you should
> > do when upgrading via binaries.
> >
> >
> I wouldn't delete that, just rename it to Subversion14 or something.
> You may find you want to go back to 1.4. (Back up your working copies
> and repositories first: 1.4 won't be able to work with a working copy
> after 1.6 has touched it. The repository won't be upgraded
> automatically, but you might choose to do so.)
>
That's great - thanks for the advice. Would you just clarify something
you said there ....
> ...........................The repository won't be upgraded
> automatically, but you might choose to do so.)
I'm not sure whether you're saying it's a good idea to do some sort of
manual upgrade of the repos ... but you see to suggest this isn't
necessary ? Could you expand please ?
thanks
richard
> Duncan Murdoch
> > thanks
> >
> > richard.
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Received on 2009-04-17 13:40:10 CEST