Branko Čibej wrote on Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:20 +0200: > On 27.06.2020 15:04, Ben Elliston wrote: > > I was a very early SVN user. I have a repo last timestamped January > > 2003 that I want to get files and data out of. When I run svn upgrade, > > I get: > > > > svnadmin: E165005: Expected repository format '3' or '5'; found format '1' > > > Repository format 1 is really, really old; older, in fact, than > Subversion 1.0, which used format 3 and did not offer backward > compatibility with pre-1.0 repositories. > > > > Do I need to install an intermediate version of SVN in order to > > upgrade? If so, which version would you advise that I use? > > The latest version that I can find that used format 1 is 0.27.0: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/0.27.0 > > If you can build that version (which is probably going to be quite > challenging, given its dependencies -- IIRC we still used APR-0.9 and > some old, probably now unavailable version of Berkeley DB), you can then > dump the repository with that old version of 'svnadmin'. It's likely > that the current svnadmin can read such old dumps. > > (And if not -- surely that's a bug and can be fixed because we do > promise to support repository dump formats indefinitely.)
What are the differences between f1 and f3? Would «echo 3 > format» (plus perhaps some manual edits) allow current svnadmin's to dump the repository?
