On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:41:51PM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > PHASE 3: Profit!
> >
> > We modify "svn switch" (without the relocate flag) as follows:
> >
> > If the new URL does not match the old repository root:
> > Contact the new URL and ask for the uuid and new repository root
> > If the new uuid matches the old uuid:
> > Relocate from the old repository root to the new one
> > Finish by doing a regular "svn switch" to the new URL
> >
> > Then we deprecate "svn switch --relocate" and remove it in 2.0.
> >
> > Comments? I will file an enhancement issue for this plan if no one
> > objects. I don't have immediate plans to implement it, so other
> > people should feel free to jump on it.
>
> I like the plan -- and we've needed to separate repos-root from
> path-in-repos in working copies for a long time, for various reasons,
> so this would bring benefits beyond relocate.
>
> I'm a little unclear on step 3. Should it be this instead?:
>
> If the new URL does not match the old repository root:
> Contact the new URL and ask for the uuid and new repository root
> If the new uuid matches the old uuid:
> Relocate from old repository root to new one (if they differ)
> Else if the uuids don't match:
> ERROR, as we do currently I believe
> Finish with a regular "svn switch" to the new URL (might be a no-op)
>
> By "no-op", I mean, it might be that the only thing changing is the
> repository root portion, and the path-in-repos is not changing.
>
> Also, when I say "repository root" above, it really means
> hostname+reposroot. I assume you informally meant that in your
> algorithm too?
>
In my suggestion below, that is what I mean.
> -Karl
>
I think it should be:
Contact the new URL and ask for the its uuid and repository root
If the new uuid doesn't match the old uuid:
ERROR
If the new root doesn't match the old root:
Relocate from the old root to the new one
Finish by doing a regular "svn switch" to the new URL.
--ben
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Received on Mon Oct 18 15:22:02 2004