This page contains information about subverison that isn't immediately obvious when searching the internet.

This is some information on various files in a subversion repository. This is in regards to the actual repository itself, not a working copy that is checked out. All paths are relative to the root of the repository. So if the repository is at /var/db/svn/project then db/ references /var/db/svn/project/db/

• db/format
  • (doesn't exist) - assumed to be format 1, this was used up to v1.4
  • 2 - this repository was created in v1.4. The svndiff command was optimized to help reduce the storage space
  • 3 - this repository was created in v1.5+. The database format had significant updates, most notably is merge tracking
• db/fs-type - this will be either fsfs or bdb, the two database formats subversion supports.