[Drawkit] File format extensions

[Graham Cox]

Thanks for the comprehensive info Eric.

This jibes with what I gleaned from the svn book. What I'm in the dark  
about is this - if I run svnadmin on my local machine, what is path? I  
don't have anything but FTP and HTTP access to my host, as far as I  
can see (not even ssh) - it's just the usual sort of common-or-garden  
webhosting package except that it supports svn repos. I have created  
the repo using the web front-end that the ISP provides, and I have an  
http URL to it for check in/check out, etc. That's fine for starting a  
new repo from scratch but I just don't see how I am supposed to move  
an existing repo to it. Using the URL path in svnadmin doesn't work.  
That's my stumbling block! I am probably missing something obvious.

Regarding a Trac front end - I suspect the answer may be no because  
I'm not in a position to set up any old software on the host - only  
those packages that the ISP provides and this isn't one of them.


cheers, Graham


On 16 May 2008, at 4:10 pm, Eric Jarvies wrote:

> Graham,
>
> it should be fairly straight forward...
>
> dump existing repo:
> svnadmin dump /path > draw_kit_repo.svn_dump
> tar zcf draw_kit_repo.tgz draw_kit_repo.svn_dump
> scp draw_kit_repo.tgz newhostname:/path
>
> create your new repo on new server/host:
> cd /path/to/new
> svnadmin create draw_kit_repo
> tar zxf draw_kit_repo.tgz
> svnadmin load draw_kit_repo < draw_kit_repo.svn_dump
>
> i would suggest you force subversion to use the same UUID for the  
> new repo as the old repo, by adding --force-uuid to your svnadmin  
> load command.  if you've already loaded the repo, you can set the  
> UUID later, but it's better to do it from the get-go.
>
> the dump file will be a lot larger then the repo itself, as it  
> contains all versions.  if you want to save on disk space, use the - 
> deltas switch, thus making successive revisions of files output as  
> compressed, binary differences, like file revisions are stored in  
> the repo.
>
> can also do:
> svnadmin dump [old_repo] | ssh-C [host] svnadmin load [new_repo]
>
> i trust there will not be anyone posting any revisions to your old  
> repo during the time of your dump, but in case it does happen, you  
> can of course import any new revisions from the old repo to the new  
> repo by creating an incremental dump:
> svnadmin load /path < rev123.svn_dump
> and then import the above revision from the old server to the new  
> one using:
> svnadmin load /path < rev123.svn_dump
>
> if need-be, to save time, in the new repo, you can turn off the  
> syncing feature(just for the import) to speed things up:
> svnadmin create --fs-type bdb --bdb-txn-nosync repos
> then do the import, then turn on syncing again by editing the repos/ 
> db/DB_CONFIG file editing out the line:
> set_flags DB_TXN_NOSYNC
> then recover the repo:
> svnadmin recover repos
>
> good luck!
>
> are you going to install a trac front-end for the new repo?
>
> regards,
>
> eric
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 15, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Thanks for the offer! I actually have the repo all set up and ready  
>> to go, so it's not the hosting that's the issue, it's transferring  
>> from the current repo without losing the history. I know I need to  
>> do a dump but it's not clear how one can do that from a remote host.
>>
>> cheers, Graham
>>
>>
>>
>> On 16 May 2008, at 12:08 pm, Eric Jarvies wrote:
>>
>>> Graham,
>>>
>>> I would be willing to setup an svn/trac repo for DrawKit, and  
>>> provide read/write access to the server(ssh/etc.).  drawkit.net  
>>> domain is available, so that could be registered, and the repo  
>>> could be given svn.drawkit.net / trac.drawkit.net(or whatever).
>>>
>>> Eric
>>
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