Changeset 585 for trunk/confman.conf.5.in

Timestamp:

12/23/2011 00:31:34 (5 months ago)

Author:

blee

Message:

Introduce new option CONF_EXPORT_FILEDB.

This allows confexport to convert repository metadata into a
proprietary file-backed metadata format and exclude all Subversion
working-copy-related files from exports.

confsync has been modified to automatically detect the presence of
the new metadata format and use it if it is available.

This has multiple benefits:

• Significantly reduces the size of export tarballs
• Reduces the time to generate export tarballs
• Eliminates the requirement that confexport/confsync have matching versions of Subversion
• Significantly improves confsync performance by eliminating svn forks

There will be even further benefits when ticket #151 is closed because
the repository metadata wil not need to be converted during confexport.

Fixes #139

File:

• trunk/confman.conf.5.in (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/confman.conf.5.in

@@ -121 +121 @@
 .Xr cp 1 .  This option can only be used if temporary files are created
 on the same filesystem partition as CONF_EXPORT_FILE.
+.It CONF_EXPORT_FILEDB
+This option optimizes
+.Xr confexport 8 and
+.Xr confsync 8 performance.  When enabled,
+.Xr confexport 8 will convert repository metadata from Subversion metadata
+into a proprietary file-backed metadata format and exclude all Subversion
+working-copy-related files from exports.  This significantly reduces the
+file size of export tarballs.  This also eliminates the previous requirement
+that the version of Subversion be matched between
+.Xr confexport 8 and
+.Xr confsync 8 machines.
 .It CONF_FETCH_SSH_KEY
 This is a private SSH keyfile for use with "sftp://" and "scp://" URIs above.