Re: svn switch: FROM needs to be accessible?

On Feb 25, 2008, at 06:57, Sebastian Posch wrote:

> I have a problem with using svn switch. We are relocating our svn
> server so now we want to switch all our repositories. I tried this:
>
> svn switch --relocate svn+ssh://user@OLDSERVER/repo/trunk svn+ssh://
> user_at_NEWSERVER/repo/trunk
>
> However, after a few minutes of runtime I get a "ssh: connect to
> host OLDSERVER port 22: Connection timed out. svn: Connection
> closed unexpectedly".
>
> Does that mean that in order to switch repositories, the old
> repository URL must still be accessible? I was hoping the command
> would just replace the URL strings in all the .svn folders without
> actually connecting to the host.
>
> I issued the switch command via our server which runs an old svn
> (1.1.4) if that helps.

svn switch --relocate is as far as I know supposed to just rewrite
the URLs in the working copy and not initiate any network connections.

Subversion 1.2.x and older are not supported anymore. Please update
to the current version which is 1.4.6.

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Received on 2008-02-25 23:08:55 CET