Re: upgrading from repo format 1

Ben Elliston wrote on Sat, 27 Jun 2020 23:04 +1000:
> I was a very early SVN user. I have a repo last timestamped January
> 2003 that I want to get files and data out of. When I run svn upgrade,
> I get:
>
> svnadmin: E165005: Expected repository format '3' or '5'; found format '1'
>
> Do I need to install an intermediate version of SVN in order to
> upgrade? If so, which version would you advise that I use?

I don't know offhand what SVN_REPOS__FORMAT_NUMBER was in 2003 — that's
several years before I joined the project — but first things first, I'd
like to confirm that you aren't running into https://subversion.apache.org/issue3744.
Did you run «svnadmin upgrade /path/to/repo/db» or «svnadmin
upgrade /path/to/repo»? The latter would be correct.

Cheers,

Daniel
Received on 2020-06-27 22:20:20 CEST