On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 13:54, Peter Samuelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Daniel Shahaf] >> The only format 5 repositories we have right now 'in the wild' are >> 1.7-dev code. revprops.db code was never included in a release. > > Well unless you count the alphas. But we _do_ warn people not to > assume anything about them, right? Also, it's not like everyone who > downloaded our alphas necessarily ran 'svnadmin upgrade' anyway.
While we do warn them, I don't see a need to break their repositories on them. We just don't support the format that they used. "use alphaN to dump your repos, then load it into alphaN+1". They may not have run 'svnadmin upgrade', but they may have created a new repository that they'd like to keep. >> If people prefer calling the new format f6 and having a tools/ script >> that bumps f5 to f6, worksforme. (and by this suggestion f5 would >> never be supported by released code) > > Ah, indeed, f5 has nothing else new in it except revprop packing. > Indeed, integers are cheap: probably best to roll trunk back to f4 and > roll the revprop-packing branch up to f6. Code to update from f5 in > 'svnadmin upgrade' is optional. That was my thinking, yeah. Cheers, -g
