On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:15:13 -0400: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Stümpfig, Thomas >> <thomas.stuemp...@siemens.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I plan to upgrade a 250GB Repository from 1.5 to 1.7. As I learned from >> > other threads in this list, it is wise to dump and load the repository in >> > order to bring everything to the latest features. >> >> Much, much faster and safer: Create a 1.7 "svnsync" against the 1.5 >> repository. Test dumping and loading from *THAT*, > > You don't need to dump/load if you have an svnsync clone created and > written to by 1.7.
In theory, yes. In practice, it's worth dumping and loading to check for bugs, since 1.7 has not been released yet.