readme.md

SVN Berkley DB Upgrade

This concept is also known as SVN repository upgrade from v1.6.x to v1.7.

The note is written for an archive I created and have up on my drive.google.com, with some ammendments to this readme for the passer-byer...

Requirements

• svn-win32-1.6.15.zip --- download
• once downloading, extract to the location of this readme and batch-file so that you have a directory layout will appear somewhat as follows.

DIRECTORY LAYOUT

.\svn-bdb-upgrade-win\readme.md
.\svn-bdb-upgrade-win\rebuild.cmd

.\svn-bdb-upgrade-win\svn-win32-1.6.15\
.\svn-bdb-upgrade-win\svn-win32-1.6.15\...
.\svn-bdb-upgrade-win\svn-win32-1.6.15\bin\

Usage

• this is a drag-drop operation.
• In Explorer, load the parent directory to your respsitory; This directoy contains your repository in the list-pane.
• Note that you should be sure the path is not too long, or is otherwise dos-compatible. In other words, you may want to move or copy the repo of interest to somewhere like: c:\repo\[my-archive].
• In another Explorer folder, load the directory containing the rebuild.cmd command-script provided in the same directory as this readme.
• A directory named new_repo will be created parallel to your repository, so if a directory with the same name exists, then you will need to either rename it, or update the NREPO variable in the command script to be reflected.
• Drag your repository directory into the command script.
• Once the command is complete, you can delete the binary-dump.

rebuild.cmd

@echo off

:: INPUT DIRECTORY

	@set DIR_IN=%~dpn1

:: Binary Output

	@set BIN_OUT=temp.bin

::  repository name

	@set NREPO=new_repo

:: make a new repo directory

	@md "%NREPO%"

:: add svn-bin to path

	@set path="%~dp0svn-win32-1.6.15\bin";%PATH%

@echo IN    %DIR_IN%
@echo OUT   %BIN_OUT%
@echo NREPO %NREPO%
@echo %~dp0svn-win32-1.6.15\bin
echo.
@echo press a key to continue
@echo -------------------------
echo.
@pause
@cls

:: dump the old repo to a binary file

	svnadmin dump "%DIR_IN%" > "%BIN_OUT%"

:: Create empty repo

	svnadmin create "%NREPO%"

:: Import Binary

	svnadmin load "%NREPO%" < "%BIN_OUT%"

pause