svn-bench and fsfs-stats binary usage

Question

I looked upon the svn-bench and fsfs-stats binary tools in SVN 1.8 as mentioned in http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#new-tools

But I'm unable to use it through command line client. I'm currently using SVN 1.8.9. Is there any other place where i need to download these clients and install it? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

I guess that you won't find these fsfs-stats and svn-bench tools in binary packages now. You have to build them yourself. Why do you need these tools anyway? Note that these are not client-side tools.

These tools are pretty useless according to Mark Phippard, unless you are Subversion developer:

I do not believe either of these tools have value to anyone other than Stefan. He mostly created these tools to analyze various cache and storage optimizations he has worked on.

As of fsfs-stats: the tool becomes a subcommand of new svnfsfs tool and the functionality may be moved to svnadmin in future releases.

P.S.: I've looked into this and command-line client binary packages by VisualSVN, SlikSVN, Algazam, CollabNet do not include these tools now. I assume they don't include fsfs-stats and fsfs-bench cause these tools are for Subversion experts only and are not intended to be used by majority of regular users.