RE: Stumped on switch relocate

I'm pretty sure that if you relocate a subdirectory, and then try to relocate its parent, you'll have a problem as described. The same is true if any subfolder can't be accessed for some reason. At least, this has been my experience, having done several relocations recently.

I suggest: Move the already-relocated subfolder out of the parent folder. And then try the relocation again on the parent folder.

If you're still stuck, do a svn status on the parent, and move anything that's locally modified out. After the relocation, you should do an update, and move the local changes back in again.

Before I move a repository, I always give users some warning, and tell them to all do their updates & commits. This really helps to minimize the problems afterward.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Stone [mailto:fourstones.net_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 6:12 PM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Stumped on switch relocate
>
> Using 1.4.3 I'm getting the dreaded "Relocate can only change the
> repository part of an URL" when doing switch --relocate
>
> I've looked through the source and found this error message exactly
> once in libsvn_wc/relocate.c and can't figure what it could be.
>
> I have no extra path information (which would be stripped off in the
> function mentioned above anyway) and I've verified that my 'from' URL
> is the exact same URL as that in .svn/entries file. I'm assuming it's
> failing right at the root because it's entries file is not being
> re-written.
>
> One special note: before I tried doing this at the root I cd'd into a
> leaf node of the project and performed the 'relocate' command there
> and it worked (!) which gave me confidence to try it at the root,
> where I started getting the error. I have since tried it in another
> leaf node and it failed again.
>
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Received on 2008-03-31 06:11:50 CEST