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[Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>]

On Thursday 13 of October 2011 01:52:24 Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> subversion 1.7.0 has changed the format of its metadata in repository.
> The version 1.6 uses format 10, new subversion 1.7 uses format 12.
> Problem of new subversion 1.7 is with repositories created with previous
> version of subversion. Until now the upgrade of format of metadata was
> performed automatically by first svn update. Now it is necessary to run
> "svn upgrade" before "svn update" [1]. All tarballs in
> /var/spool/sorcery with sources with svn version have to be upgraded (or
> removed and re-downloaded).
> 
> ...
>
> The next way is updating sorcery to care about this. Check format
> (.svn/format or head -1 .svn/entries or ...) and if it isn't 12 then
> upgrade it. Does it worth it?
> 
> [1] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#wc-ng
Sure, sorcery could handle this if there's a nice way to find out which 
version 
subversion wants. This could come up again, so why not try to handle it 
properly?

LP
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