difference between subversion 1.4.2 repository and 1.6.12 repository

[Kriparam Faraday <kr...@gmail.com>]

Can someone tell me the difference between a 1.4.2 repository and 1.6.12
repository? I recently upgraded all our repositories(along with the
subversion server) from 1.4.2 to 1.6.12. I ran the svnadmin verify, tested
check-in, check-out,add,delete file etc... Everything looks good. But, I
wanted to know if the repositories are truly 1.6 now? How do I find that
out? what is the difference between the two repositories.

I found this online, but it didnt help much:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/repos_upgrade_HOWTO


Thanks in advance.
Kripa

Re: difference between subversion 1.4.2 repository and 1.6.12 repository

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Kriparam Faraday <kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone tell me the difference between a 1.4.2 repository and 1.6.12
> repository? I recently upgraded all our repositories(along with the
> subversion server) from 1.4.2 to 1.6.12. I ran the svnadmin verify, tested
> check-in, check-out,add,delete file etc... Everything looks good. But, I
> wanted to know if the repositories are truly 1.6 now? How do I find that
> out? what is the difference between the two repositories.
>
> I found this online, but it didnt help much:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/repos_upgrade_HOWTO

Good for you! They should be working just fine if you used "svnadmin
upgrade". What's not necessarily obvious to a new admin is that it can
be worth doing a dump and reload, in order to take advantage of the
more efficient storage now. This can particularly clean up logs with
end-of-line whackiness, and significantly improve the performance of
large repositories.

The larger the repository, the longer this takes to do the dump and
reload, of course.

Re: difference between subversion 1.4.2 repository and 1.6.12 repository

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:51, Kriparam Faraday wrote:

> Can someone tell me the difference between a 1.4.2 repository and 1.6.12 repository? I recently upgraded all our repositories(along with the subversion server) from 1.4.2 to 1.6.12. I ran the svnadmin verify, tested check-in, check-out,add,delete file etc... Everything looks good. But, I wanted to know if the repositories are truly 1.6 now? How do I find that out? what is the difference between the two repositories.
> 
> I found this online, but it didnt help much: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/repos_upgrade_HOWTO

Yes, that HOWTO appears to be old. Refer to the current versions' release notes instead.

You should upgrade your repositories using "svnadmin upgrade". See:

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#repos-upgrades

and:

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html#repos-upgrades

Refer to the "Minimum Repository" column of this table:

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#new-feature-compatibility-table

and of this table:

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html#new-feature-compatibility-table

to see what features you're missing by not doing this.