Re: Subversion 1.9.7 server on Windows, advice on setting up svnsync?

Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> writes:

> Bo Berglund <bo.berglund_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2) Use hotcopy to make a backup copy of everything including hooks.
>> The caveat here is that the hotcopy needs to be using the exact same
>> version on both master and mirror. But I have 1.9.7 master on Windows
>> and 1.9.3 mirror on Ubuntu Linux
>
> No, hotcopy needs compatible versions. Any version of Subversion is
> compatible with all older versions, and any 1.N.x is compatible with any
> other 1.N.y. In your case 1.9.7 and 1.9.3 are compatible.

It's a bit more complicated in practice. Any version of Subversion can
read/write all the older repository formats and it is the repository
format that needs to be compatible. So for the hotcopy to be useable on
the mirror what matters is whether the version of Subversion on the
mirror is compatible with the repository format on the master.

-- 
Philip