Version Control with Subversion

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Chapter 5: Repository Administration

with any of Berkeley’s database tools (you can see the documentation for these tools

at SleepyCat’s website, http://www.sleepycat.com/).

For day-to-day Subversion use, these tools are unnecessary. Most of the functional-

ity typically needed for Subversion repositories has been duplicated in the

svnadmin

tool. For example, svnadmin list-unused-dblogs and svnadmin list-dblogs perform

a subset of what is provided by Berkeley’s

db_archive command, and svnadmin

recover

reflects the common use-cases of the db_recover utility.

There are still a few Berkeley DB utilities that you mind find useful. The

db_dump and

db_load programs write and read, respectively, a custom file format which describes

the keys and values in a Berkeley DB database. Since Berkeley databases are not por-

table across machine architectures, this format is a useful way to transfer those data-

bases from machine to machine, irrespective of architecture or operating system.

Also, the

db_stat utility can provide useful information about the status of your Ber-

keley DB environment, including detailed statistics about the locking and storage

subsystems.

Repository Cleanup

Your Subversion repository will generally require very little attention once it is con-

figured to your liking. However, ...