[Gllug] Moving from CVS

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On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Richard Jones mused:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:49:10PM -0400, Sarah Ewen wrote:
>> We moved from CVS -> Subversion without any problems, using subversion's
>> repository conversion tool.
> 
> As I understand it, Subversion uses some sort of strange binary format
> for the repository.

I used to be, until I realised that this is a perfectly good definition
of `a filesystem' --- and I'm not concerned about storing my files in
there!

I've never had a repo-corrupting bug, and if you do have one, just as
with corrupt filesystems, well, that's what backups are for.

--- more than that, with the FSFS repository format, you can pretty much
just delete the most-recently-created FSFS files to do, er, an
`emergency rollback' of the entire repository state in case of
corruption, as Subversion never changes the older files once they're
created. This is also friendlier on backups... (Actually, you have to do
some more fiddling as well, but I have a patch that removes that
fiddling which I really must clean up and submit.)

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