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Re: 1.6.3: problems with svnadmin 'pack' and 'upgrade' on windows

From: Olivier Sannier <obones_at_free.fr>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:05:58 +0200

Ray Navarette wrote:
>
> I’ve recently upgraded our server from 1.4 to 1.6. I’d like to upgrade
> the repository to 1.6 also to take advantage of FSFS packing and merge
> tracking. So, as a sanity check, I wanted to first test out this
> upgrade. To do so, I did an ‘svnadmin hotcopy’ of the repository. This
> completed with what seems to be success (I can check out a working
> copy). I then attempt to upgrade with ‘svnadmin upgrade’ on the repo.
> This completes almost immediately with no text output to the console
> (is this expected?). It seems that the format file gets changed, but
> I’m surprised its this quick. Similar result with ‘svnadmin pack’,
> immediate completion and no output. I also expect there to be many
> less rev files (1 if my understanding is correct) after packing. There
> is still 1 file per revision.
>

Hotcopy won't work for sharding the repository.
What you have to do is create a new repository and then go the
"dump/load" route to populate it.
Doing this, you get the shards, and then you can use the packing

I did it, it works just fine.

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