On 29.04.2015 05:09, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Reedick <jreed...@incomm.com> wrote: >> Does anyone have any tips on how to upgrade a very old repo? The db/format >> lists "1". A 1.8 svn client cannot hotcopy, dump or "svnadmin upgrade" such >> an old repo, all of which fail with "svnadmin: E720002: Can't open file >> 'devel\db\current': The system cannot find the file specified." >> >> Do I need find a really old svn client (1.3?) and upgrade? Do I need to >> manually create the db/current file? >> >> >> Supposedly , a format of "1" is from pre-svn 1.0. >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.h >> -> "Formats 0, 1 and 2 were pre-1.0." > Why can't you do a fresh working copy, and copy all files except those > in '.svn' subdirectories?
Without db/current, he can't perform a checkout, and if he could and just copied the file, he'd be throwing away all history. -- Brane
