Hi, We are currently using Subversion 1.5.2 and want to upgrade to Subversion 1.6.6.
Upon going through subversion documentation, we found that there can be two ways of doing this: 1. Installing a new Subversion 1.6.6 instance and simply upgrading all the repositories via the svnadmin upgrade command. 2. Creating dumps of each of the repositories from Subversion 1.5.2 instance and loading them into the newly installed Subversion 1.6.6 instance. Can anyone please guide us which of these two options should we go for ? The help text for 'svnadmin upgrade' command says that it "performs only the minimum amount of work needed to accomplish this while still maintaining the integrity of the repository. It does not guarantee the most optimized repository state as a dump and subsequent load would": $/> svnadmin help upgrade upgrade: usage: svnadmin upgrade REPOS_PATH Upgrade the repository located at REPOS_PATH to the latest supported schema version. This functionality is provided as a convenience for repository administrators who wish to make use of new Subversion functionality without having to undertake a potentially costly full repository dump and load operation. As such, the upgrade performs only the minimum amount of work needed to accomplish this while still maintaining the integrity of the repository. It does not guarantee the most optimized repository state as a dump and subsequent load would. But, following excerpt from Subversion Documentation (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.migrate) says that there is no requirement of doing dump and reload between versions 1.5.x to 1.6.x : "As Subversion matured, there were times when changes made to the backend database schema caused compatibility issues with previous versions of the repository, so users had to dump their repository data using the previous version of Subversion and load it into a freshly created repository with the new version of Subversion. Now, these types of schema changes haven't occurred since Subversion's 1.0 release, and the Subversion developers promise not to force users to dump and load their repositories when upgrading between minor versions (such as from 1.3 to 1.4) of Subversion." Also, the release note for Subversion 1.6.x (http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html) says the same: "There is no need to dump and reload your repositories. Subversion 1.6 can read repositories created by earlier versions. To upgrade an existing installation, just install the newest libraries and binaries on top of the older ones. Working Copy Upgrades WARNING: if a Subversion 1.6 client encounters a pre-1.6 working copy, it will automatically upgrade the working copy format as soon as it touches it, making it unreadable by older Subversion clients. If you are using several versions of Subversion on your machine, be careful about which version you use in which working copy, to avoid accidentally upgrading a working copy. (But note that this "auto upgrade" behavior does not occur with the repositories, only working copies.) If you accidentally upgrade a 1.5 working copy to 1.6, and wish to downgrade back to 1.5, use the change-svn-wc-format.py script. See this FAQ entry for details, and run the script with the --help option for usage instructions. Repository Upgrades The Subversion 1.6 server works with 1.5 and older repositories, and it will not upgrade such repositories to 1.6 unless specifically requested to via the svnadmin upgrade command. This means that some of the new 1.6 features will not become available simply by upgrading your server: you will also have to upgrade your repositories. (We decided not to auto-upgrade repositories because we didn't want 1.6 to silently make repositories unusable by 1.5 - that step should be a conscious decision on the part of the repository admin.) " Please provide your suggestion whether we should go for dump and load of all repositories (as in option 2) or option 1 would be as good ? Thanks and Regards, Abhinav Chandra RBS Global Banking & Markets Office: +91 124 479 1752 *********************************************************************************** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. 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