Upgrading Subversion

[James N]

I'm using Subversion 1.3.2 on a Windows XP Pro machine. I see the newest release is 1.4.2.

The newer version has a few good features, reduced disk space usage for one. It appears you have to "recreate" your repository to get this benifit. I know there's some kind of dump and reload function, but I haven't looked that far yet. There's also notes about the client's computer's working copy be automatically updated.

Has anyone gone through the process of upgrading Subversion? Not necessarily to this latest version but in general what should I look out for?

Thanks,

James

[Ashish Uttarwar]

It appears you have to "recreate" your repository to get this benifit.

Do you know if "recreation" looses history of the repository?

Regards,

Ashish

[gustav]

I'm using Subversion 1.3.2 on a Windows XP Pro machine. I see the newest release is 1.4.2.

The newer version has a few good features, reduced disk space usage for one. It appears you have to "recreate" your repository to get this benifit. I know there's some kind of dump and reload function, but I haven't looked that far yet. There's also notes about the client's computer's working copy be automatically updated.

Has anyone gone through the process of upgrading Subversion? Not necessarily to this latest version but in general what should I look out for?

Thanks,

James

Here's a description of how you recreate the repository:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#dumpload

Note that this is only necessary if you want to benefit from the new repository format which uses less diskspace. Recreating the repository will not lose any data or history.

The few times Ive upgraded subversion I never had any problems.