RE: Subversion dump/load - author

Hi -

Thank you for returning my email. To answer your question in the first sentence, yes, I am talking about the files within the repository tree. Let me first explain that the current repository is
running on Linux. I access the repository through TortoiseSVN on my workstation using the link that connects me to the repository on the Linux machine such as, https://pathtorepository/

Below is an example of the TortoiseSVN repository display header.

File Extension Revision Author Size Date
Accounting App 70 jjones 01/01/2012
Budget App 135 bsmith 04/16/1996
InventoryApp 16 tfoxworth 03/22/2001

When I create the dump file, I do so by directly logging into the Linux machine. From the command line, I do the following;
$svnadmin dump /app/svn/csvn/data/repositories/nameofrepository -r 7500 > prod1.dump

The prod1.dump file is create and I have a sys admin copy it to the Windows machine. I create an empty repository on the Windows machine using subversion edge(collabnet) administration console. I then perform the svnadmin load command. (I don't remember the exact syntax but I use force uuid). The load is successful and when I open the repository using TortoiseSVN on the Windows machine, all of the Author's names, in all the folders and sub folders, in all revisions are the same, such as bsmith. Each time I do this, the Author's name will change, but the effect is the same. All of the Author's names in all of the directories and sub directories contain the same name. I'd like to keep the Author's names as they are displayed in the repository before the move.

Note:

At one time I had used a repository that was on a dev box, one that I used for experimentation. I was able to load the entire repository without having to do the latest revision. Everything
displayed as expected. I tried to do a full dump of the production instance but the resulting dump file was so large that I ran out of room. I also tried to dump it to a zip file, but didn't have
much luck.

Thank You
Tom

From: David Chapman [mailto:dcchapman_at_acm.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 1:54 AM
To: Tom Sorensen; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Subversion dump/load - author

On 9/12/2016 7:12 AM, Tom Sorensen wrote:
Hello -

I am a self taught Subversion administrator. I hope I am posting to the correct place. I am moving a subversion repository from Linux to Windows.
I performed the dump command on the Linux machine and copied the resulting repository. dump file to the windows machine. On the windows machine I created an empty repository via a subversion Edge console. I then performed the load command from a command line prompt. The repository loaded but the 'author' on all folders have the same person's name assigned. For example jbrown is the author throughout the entire repository. Some time ago I had a test repository and performed the same as above and all of the resulting 'authors' were correctly loaded.

I have reviewed the subversion website, but haven't seen anything on this. Can you help?

Are you asking about files within the repository directory tree on the server, e.g. revision files? It is typical for them to be created by a server process and thus be owned by the user ID for that process. I host my repositories on Linux using the "http://"<http://> access method, and all files within the repository have the user ID "apache". The user IDs of the committing developers are stored within the repository data structures for each revision, so I can still determine who committed each revision. If I loaded a dump file under Windows, I'd expect all revisions to be created with my user ID, not "apache". (I don't have multiple accounts on my Windows machines, so I can't test this.)

If you were using the "file://"<file:///\\> method for repository access then I can see how individual revisions would be owned by the committing developers, but this is not the recommended method of hosting a multi-user Subversion repository. If you were not using the "file://"<file:///\\> method, I'd tend to look at ownership of repository files by different user IDs as a bug, or at best a quirk - not the expected or "only correct" result.

If I misunderstood your question please list the files which have surprising ownership.

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