Re: [tlug] SVN: Your Environment, BerkleyDB/Web or FSFS?

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 11/29/05, Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com> wrote:

> On 2005/11/29 16:56, Mark Sargent wrote:
> > How do you guys have it set
> > up, and why that way in particular.?
>
> I've moved to FSFS.  Because all the other kids did.  And while I never
> had the problems, others reported cases of the DB version getting wedged.

As Jim does, so do I. ;)

Seriously, I saw some nasty wedging with BDB when I upgraded
Subversion 1.0 to 1.1. This might have been an artifact of my version
of BDB on Solaris 8, but all I know is that FSFS has never caused me
any trouble, and I have never seen this bad news with it:

: jmglov@example.com; svnadmin dump /home/svnroot.old/osdt >osdt.dump
svnadmin: Berkeley DB error for filesystem /home/svnroot.old/osdt/db
while opening environment:
Invalid argument
svnadmin: bdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version

Nasty!

I run SVN with the regular svnserve, not as a WebDAV module. As I
mentioned in my presentation, this is mainly because WebDAV was a bear
to setup and I did not have the time to get it working. I imagine that
WebDAV is the way to go, since it gives you all the super-fly Apache
access controls for free.

But svnserve Just Works out of the box, and that may be a big thing for you.

I use the standard, CLI SVN client. As should you. Though Trac is
great for project management and bug tracking, and integrates *nicely*
with SVN.

-Josh