Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de> writes:
>> On 18 Nov 2014, at 09:50, Baruch Burstein <bmburstein@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are the node records in a single revision in a svn dump file
>> guaranteed/required to be in a sorted lexicographical order?
>
> Not guaranteed or required. The most informative results on this come
> up with the "apr hash order" keywords in mailing list and CHANGES.
>
>> If not, is that at least the case when using the official dump tools
>> (svnadmin/svnrdump)?
>
> Well there is only official source, and it depends on the apr hash
> order. I believe that current releases do sort to circumvent the hash
> order unpredictability. Dumps and revision files.
The hash ordering of nodes in dump files was considered a bug:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4134
and is fixed in recent versions.
As far as I can see we do not document the order in:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt
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