Re: Subversion 1.6 / 1.7 compatibility - RHEL/CentOS 6/7 upgrade

2016-12-20 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Matt Garman wrote: >> Looking at the Subversion 1.7 release notes[2], and also my own >> testing, it appears that what I could do to make this easy for >> everyone is to upgrade al

Subversion 1.6 / 1.7 compatibility - RHEL/CentOS 6/7 upgrade

2016-12-19 Thread Matt Garman
We're looking at upgrading our systems from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7[1]. CentOS 6 provides subversion-1.6, and CentOS 7 provides subversion-1.7. We have far too many machines and too much custom development to upgrade all servers at once. So there will be a period where the two OSes must co-exist. (

Re: Creating and Verifying a Reliable backup

2016-06-01 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Pavel Lyalyakin wrote: > Hello Matt, > > Why do you use `rsync`? > > [1]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.freeze.html > [2]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.hotcopy.html I have no good reason! Backup scripts were setup

Re: Creating and Verifying a Reliable backup

2016-06-01 Thread Matt Garman
I think there's two questions here: (1) what are general good backup practices, and (2) how to backup svn repos specifically. "If we lose it, we're all out of work." Hopefully your boss recognizes this and has budgeted appropriately. In my experience there is no perfect backup; the best you can

tag individual files vs whole repo?

2016-05-10 Thread Matt Garman
Consider this scenario: our project has concurrent releases, R8 and R9. These releases have been indicated in the repo by some means, either a tag or a branch. Now, we need to bugfix R8 only. Specifically, we want to do a release R8.1 that does not include R9 features. Through some means, e.g. m