On 1/16/06, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
>
> What Shawn told you is a diff, not a backup. A diff between two revisions
> is not really an "incremental backup". And one shouldn't do backups of a
> sandbox anyway, you should do backups of the repository. Which has nothing
> to do with what Shawn wrote.

I disagree.  Shawn's command does a dump of the repository.  If you
store the diffs between every revision, you will be able to restore
the repository by doing an 'svnadmin load'.  Obviously you wouldn't do
it by hand, it would be done by a script.

Alan, I think you are confused about how Subversion works... when you
get the difference between two revisions in a repository, it gives you
a text file that lists only what has changed, line by line.

Index: path/to/file.txt
==================================================================
--- path/to/file.txt	(revision 1767)
+++ path/to/file.txt	(revision 1769)
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@
 Some text
 Some more text
     Blah blah blah
-    Extra lines that don't need to be here
-    Extra lines that don't need to be here
-    Extra lines that don't need to be here
     Blah blah blah
     Blah blah blah
     Blah blah blah

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