Upgrade (Windows) repository and server from 1.3.x to 1.5.x

[Roger Lipscombe <ro...@1e.com>]

Some questions:


1.       Should I use the Collabnet release? Should I use the tigris.org release? Is it worth upgrading Apache to 2.2? We're not using it for anything other than SVN (it's on a VM).

2.       Do I need to/should I dump/load the repos?

3.       Is there anything I need to know about getting mergeinfo up to date? Or is it game over, given that we've been doing a mixture of manual and automatic merging for the last couple of years?

Cheers,
Roger.


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Re: Upgrade (Windows) repository and server from 1.3.x to 1.5.x

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:36, Roger Lipscombe <ro...@1e.com> wrote:
> Some questions:
>
>
>
> 1.       Should I use the Collabnet release? Should I use the tigris.org
> release? Is it worth upgrading Apache to 2.2? We're not using it for
> anything other than SVN (it's on a VM).

My first 2 SVN installs I did as separate Apache & Subversion
installs. I switched to Collabnet with 1.5. It was a lot quicker &
easier.

> 2.       Do I need to/should I dump/load the repos?

I would recommend it, to get the full benefits with minimal trouble.
As long as you're using FSFS, you can go without the dump/load cycle
(since you're sticking with Windows), and then run a script to "shard"
the directories in the repository and run svnadmin upgrade.

Or you can do the dump/load and have all that done automatically, PLUS
get the benefit of the new diff algorithm introduced in 1.4 which may
reduce the size of the repository on disk (saved me about 500MB on a
2.8GB repository)

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