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Asked: 2026-05-15T15:54:39+00:00

I’m looking for the database Design ( Relational – Model ) used by Subversion.

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I’m looking for the database Design ( Relational – Model ) used by Subversion.
I’m working in a project that should be able to merge, version and any other similar subversion operations.

Does anyone know any site that describes the Subversion tables ?

Thanks in advance !

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have a look at this page, which describes the two database formats (Berkeley DB and FSFS).

    The Subversion source code contains information on the database in the subversion/libsvn_fs_base/notes folder – there’s some history, and a description and diagram of the schema.

    You could also view the source code itself. For example, this contains code relating to creating a BDB database:

    https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_base/fs.c?view=markup

    and there’s also source code for each table in the database:

    https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_base/bdb/

    You can dump the contents of a table in the database:

    db4.8_dump YOUR_REPO/db/revisions # or 'changes', or 'locks', or...
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