What is this “dump/load cycle” people sometimes talk about when upgrading a Subversion server?
Subversion’s repository database schema changes occasionally during development. We try to keep such changes to a minimum, but Subversion is pre-1.0 software, and we want to ship 1.0 with the best schema we can. If a schema change happens between Subversion releases X and Y, then repository administrators upgrading to Y must do the following: • Shut down svnserve, Apache, and anything else that might be accessing the repository. • svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > dumpfile.txt , using version X of svnadmin. • mv /path/to/repository /path/to/saved-old-repository • Now upgrade to Subversion Y (i.e., build and install Y, replacing X). • svnadmin create /path/to/repository, using version Y of svnadmin. • svnadmin load /path/to/repository <> , again using version Y of svnadmin. • Copy over hook scripts, etc, from the old repository to the new one. • Restart svnserve, Apache, etc. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.4 for more details on dumping and load
Subversion’s repository database schema has changed occasionally during development. Old repositories, created with a pre-1.0 development version of Subversion, may require the following operation when upgrading. If a schema change happens between Subversion releases X and Y, then repository administrators upgrading to Y must do the following: • Shut down svnserve, Apache, and anything else that might be accessing the repository. • svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > dumpfile.txt , using version X of svnadmin. • mv /path/to/repository /path/to/saved-old-repository • Now upgrade to Subversion Y (i.e., build and install Y, replacing X). • svnadmin create /path/to/repository, using version Y of svnadmin. • svnadmin load /path/to/repository < dumpfile.txt , again using version Y of svnadmin. • Copy over hook scripts, etc, from the old repository to the new one. • Restart svnserve, Apache, etc. See this section of the Subversion book for more details on dumping and loading. Note: Most upgra
