RE: SVN, was: Re: [Plib-devel] Submenu Colors in PUI

[Fay J. F Dr C. U. AFSEO/SK <joh...@eg...>]

Joerg (and others),

I mentioned this subject to our local sysadmin guru and he replied:

<quote>
They've got a plain-files backend to Subversion nowadays, which is as fast,
more robust and has better failure modes. It's the default backend lately,
and the backend I use. I haven't really ever liked DB at all, for the
reasons cited. A nice thing about Debian is that back when I was using the
DB backend because it was the only one, I upgraded Subversion and
BerkeleyDB, and access to my repo was broken; but I found that the old
version of svnadmin had been explicitly left behind so that I could dump and
restore.

It is true in the general case that Subversion repositories are much more
likely to need administration.
</quote>

He also suggested that I be sure that I could get to the repository using
HTTP or HTTPS.  Can we do this?

John F. Fay
Technical Fellow, Jacobs/Sverdrup TEAS Group
850-729-6330
joh...@eg...
 
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 5:01 PM
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Subject: SVN, was: Re: [Plib-devel] Submenu Colors in PUI

Quick comment:

> Subversion stores its data in db4 files, which are NOT a standardized 
> format.  They change incompatibly between versions of Berkely db.  I
SVN supports two different formats: one is Berkley (with the mentioned
problems), the other one is 'FSFS', which is an internal format, and which
is independent of the architecture. See
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.html#svn.reposadmin.ba
sics.backends.fsfs
It allows hot backups as well.

[...]
> I'd stick with CVS.  Subversion can be made to work reliably, but not
I would suggest a move to SVN - since I moved all my projects with SVN I am
very happy about it.

Just my 2 cents.
    Joerg

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