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  1. Subversion
  2. SVN-3744

Use distinct names for all format files

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    • Task
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • all
    • 2.0-consider
    • libsvn_repos
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    Description

      A Subversion repository contains a file named 'format' (whose contents is
      SVN_REPOS__FORMAT_NUMBER) and a file named 'db/format' (whose contents is the
      filesystem format, and potentially some additional FS-backend-dependent
      information).
      
      Users commonly confuse the two when asked to report the contents of one of them.
       svnadmin is confused by this, too (which typically manifests as a cryptic error
      message from the invocation 'svnadmin /path/to/repos/db' --- which, yes, is bogus).
      
      At the next opportunity, we should rename these files to have distinct basenames
      --- for example, $REPOS/repos-format and $REPOS/db/fs-format.
      

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            danielsh Daniel Shahaf
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