For future reference: if svnadmin is version 1.9 or newer, it should have the 'info' subcommand, which will display both the repository format and the FS format.
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9#svnadmin-info Daniel (1.9 hasn't been released yet, as of this writing) Andrew Reedick wrote on Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 21:03:12 +0000: > 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." > > >
