On Fri, 08 Jul 2011, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>You missed a step.
>
>Without that step the procedure will result in corruption (data loss) at
>an undetermined time in the future.
The last time I performed this sort of repository truncation
was with a fsfs repository format 5, db/format 3, without a
rep-cache.db (as created by svn version 1.5). I don't know what
else you have to do if you have db/format 4 with a rep-cache.db
(as created by svn version 1.6), but I imagine it's something like
using the sqlite3 command line client to "delete from rep_cache
where revision > ${last_good_revision};". Newer formats will
probably need different treatment. Again, this is all unsupported
and at your own risk.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
[original message repeated for reference:]
>> To truncate a repository that uses the "fsfs" format, so that you
>> lose everything after a certain revision, you can try the following
>> procedure. This is not supported, and might break everything.
>>
>> 1. Ensure that no new changes can be committed. (Tell your
>> users to stop work, or rename the directory on the server to
>> make it inaccessible, or activate some hook scripts that deny
>> permission for any changes.)
>>
>> 2. Ensure that you have a backup.
>>
>> 3. Examine the "db/current" file in the repository. It should
>> contain the most recent revision number. If it's not what
>> you expected, then give up.
>>
>> 4. Change the "db/current" file, making it refer to the most
>> recent "good" revision (e.g. 417810) instead of to the newer
>> revisions that you want to disappear (e.g. 417811).
>>
>> 5. Delete the db/revs and db/revprops files corresponding to the
>> revisions that you want to disappear (e.g. db/revs/417/417811
>> and db/revprops/417/417811).
>>
>> 6. Allow access to the repository again.
>>
>> Any working copies that have references to the revisions that have
>> disappeared, will now be broken. You may be able to fix them via
>> "svn update -r${LAST_GOOD_REVISION}", but in the worst case, your
>> users will have to delete the working copies and check them out
>> again.
>>
>> --apb (Alan Barrett)
Received on 2011-07-08 10:45:12 CEST