> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Reedick [mailto:jreed...@incomm.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 28 april 2015 23:03
> To: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Dealing with very old repo format (version 1)
>
> Does anyone have any tips on how to upgrade a very old repo? The
db/format
> lists "1". A 1.8 svn client cannot hotcopy, dump or "svnadmin upgrade"
such an
> old repo, all of which fail with "svnadmin: E720002: Can't open file
> 'devel\db\current': The system cannot find the file specified."
>
> Do I need find a really old svn client (1.3?) and upgrade? Do I need to
manually
> create the db/current file?
>
>
> Supposedly , a format of "1" is from pre-svn 1.0.
>
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos/re
p
> os.h -> "Formats 0, 1 and 2 were pre-1.0."
There are repository versions and database versions (format files are in
repos/ and repos/db/). It looks like he is talking about the db format,
which is documented in the filesystem backends.
Bert
