On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Reedick <jreed...@incomm.com> wrote: > 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/repos.h > -> "Formats 0, 1 and 2 were pre-1.0."
Why can't you do a fresh working copy, and copy all files except those in '.svn' subdirectories?