Subversion/CVS experiment summary

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Michael Reifenberger wrote:

> Hi,
> first, this seems to be a good analysis of SVN and a good
> starting point for thinking about moving away from CVS.

I missed the original thread here, so this point may have already been
made ... but ... we tried to use subversion for a project recently, and
made a *big* mistake of upgrading to a newer version from what we started
with ... and could no longer access the repository ... apparently there is
a 'dump / reload' procedure that we weren't aware of at the time, but this
is something that should be watched for ...

>From the INSTALL file:

Version 0.34.0 (released 3 December 2003, from revision r7859)
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/0.34.0

#####################################################################
##  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  WARNING  ##
#####################################################################
##                                                                 ##
## This release makes  an incompatible  change  to  the Subversion ##
## database.    Repositories created with versions  of  Subversion ##
## prior to 0.34 will not work with Subversion 0.34.               ##
## To  upgrade,   first  use  'svnadmin dump'  with  your existing ##
## Subversion binaries.   Then upgrade your binaries to 0.34,  and ##
## use  'svnadmin load'  to  create  a  new  repository  from your ##
## dumpfile.                                                       ##
## Don't  forget  to  copy any custom configuration/hooks from the ##
## old to the new repository.                                      ##
##                                                                 ##
#####################################################################

note that this was pre-0.34, but since its still "under development",
there is always the chance that this happens again ... a load of the
system took 49hrs, I believe was mentioned ... how long to dump/reload the
system once its already "in subvsersion" format?

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