I have a (possibly confused) use who says on reposurgeon's IRC support
channel "we have trouble with broken history in one of our repos and I
can't create a mirror for it via svnsync, but can create a dump file
via svnrdump. when I try to load it though, it complains about file
format version"
On investigating, I found this sentence in the SVN book section
on data mingration: "It [svnrdump] currently generates dump
streams only of the sort which are created when you pass the
--deltas option to svnadmin dump."
Reposurgeon can't handle the Version 3 format with deltas, and there
is no realistic possibility that this will change because the format
is not documented anywhere.
I don't know if my user can can run svndump on the repository. Even
if he can, I can imagine administrative situations in which users
can't get the local access required to do that but can run svnrdump.
Therefore: please add an option to svnrdump in Version 2 format.
It makes me twitchy that there's any possible future in which that
format might be unsuppoted or inaccessible.
Should I file an issue about this?
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>>esr>>
