2011/5/5 Thorsten Schöning <tschoening_at_am-soft.de>:
> Guten Tag Loren M. Lang,
> am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011 um 02:39 schrieben Sie:
>
>> We have been using Subversion 1.4.x for quite some time and just earlier
>> this year, we upgraded to 1.5.x. Our repository is still the same as we
>> did no dump/load between upgrades. I was curious to see what kind of
>> space savings we might have if we did.
>
> I recently started syncing our old repositorys, all fsfs and created
> with Subversion versions 1.4.x and earlier, to a new server with most
> repositories created with Subversion 1.6.x and only standard features
> enabled. It's about 7,2 GB vs. 6,2 GB with one of our largest
> repositories on the sync target still in an older fsfs format. Seems
> it worth to do a complete dump/load cycle and the newer repository
> formats also have a feature called rep-sharing, where data is stored
> only once for the complete repository.
You also have the option of packing a repository created with or after
1.6.x. For packing, earlier repositories can be upgraded in place,
rather than being dump/loaded.
-Hyrum
Received on 2011-05-05 14:45:54 CEST