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Re: Confirmation of an svnadmin dump and load

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:37:51 -0500

On Jul 8, 2009, at 06:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2009-07-06 19:41:53 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> "svndumptool diff" can show you the difference (if any) between two
>> dumpfiles.
>>
>> http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/
>>
>> (see the README for the full list of features)
>
> How does it do its diff exactly?
>
> I usually use the Unix "diff" command, but when the repository
> format is upgraded, I got changes, e.g. in the format-3 to
> format-5 upgrade:
>
> Node-path: macosx/dports/gnome/liferea/Portfile
> Node-kind: file
> Node-action: change
> -Prop-delta: true
> -Prop-content-length: 10
> Text-delta: true
> Text-delta-base-md5: e15e61a13799682cc4486082167e65f6
> Text-content-length: 463
> Text-content-md5: dbc4382f965992da83e88ab62f6bd34f
> -Content-length: 473
> +Content-length: 463
>
> -PROPS-END
>
> and
>
> -Node-path: tex/Makefile
> -Node-kind: file
> -Node-action: change
> -Prop-delta: true
> -Prop-content-length: 10
> -Content-length: 10
> -
> -PROPS-END
>
> It may be a consequence of bug 2743 (though it is supposed to affect
> the working copy only). However, it seems that the meaning is the
> same (empty list of properties vs nothing).

Right. "svndumptool diff" gives you a meaningful diff, ignoring the
differences that are due to different versions of the format or
different tools producing the dump files.

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