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RE: Dealing with very old repo format (version 1)

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:11:07 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Reedick [mailto:jreedick_at_incomm.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 28 april 2015 23:03
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Dealing with very old repo format (version 1)
>
> Does anyone have any tips on how to upgrade a very old repo? The
db/format
> lists "1". A 1.8 svn client cannot hotcopy, dump or "svnadmin upgrade"
such an
> old repo, all of which fail with "svnadmin: E720002: Can't open file
> 'devel\db\current': The system cannot find the file specified."
>
> Do I need find a really old svn client (1.3?) and upgrade? Do I need to
manually
> create the db/current file?
>
>
> Supposedly , a format of "1" is from pre-svn 1.0.
>
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos/re
p
> os.h -> "Formats 0, 1 and 2 were pre-1.0."

There are repository versions and database versions (format files are in
repos/ and repos/db/). It looks like he is talking about the db format,
which is documented in the filesystem backends.

        Bert
Received on 2015-04-28 23:11:49 CEST

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