> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name]
> Sent: maandag 21 december 2015 15:58
> To: Roberto Reale <roberto.real...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com>;
> dev@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] improved behaviour of tools/backup/hot-backup.py
>
> I think (3) should fall back to $REPOS_DIR/db/fs-type (which is
> guaranteed to exist) rather than to umask. (The umask has the right
> dimension — permission bits — but using it might surprise users.)
Are you sure this 'must exist'?
When I accidentally tried to use a wrong directory some weeks ago (while
working on libsvn_fs_git) I found that when that file is missing we assume that
the filesystem is BDB.
Bert
