[Borgbackup] Find repository version number

[Billy Charlton]

Perhaps the borg info command should describe the default chunk parameters
for a repository, as well as the specific chunk parameters for an archive.
that would be better than inferring chunk parameters from the code version.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver at aklaver.com>
wrote:

> On 02/12/2016 09:39 AM, Stan Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Yes, but the config version (=1 for both a 0.30 and a 1.0.0rc
>> repository) gives no help with the problem.
>>
>> Since there was a change in the default chunk size between program
>> versions, knowing the version of a repository makes a difference in
>> judging whether or not to replace a 0.30 repository with an entirely
>> new, larger chunk size 1.0.0rc repository.
>>
>
> If I follow the Changelog correctly:
>
> https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/1.0.0rc1/docs/changes.rst
>
> what you want to do is going to be complicated if you are already using
> 1.0.0rc against an existing repo. Basically a repo can have multiple chunk
> size archives within it and that can result from the program version change
> or user changes to --chunker-params. So knowing what version created a repo
> is not necessarily an indication of the chunkiness of the archives within.
>
>
>> I expected the borg info -v command to give me the program version. It
>> doesn't. I thought perhaps the README file in the repository directory
>> might have the program version. It doesn't.
>>
>> On 12/02/16 11:40 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/12/2016 07:26 AM, Stan Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am running 1.0.0rc. I have several repositories on two different
>>>> machines. How do I find the version that created a specific repository?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do not know how you find the program version, but if you look in the
>>> config file in each repo it will show you the repo version.
>>>
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