Hmm, please ignore what I wrote. Now that I thought about it i think that
i was just too afraid to break something when I did that hack and forgot
the obvious solution, a normal switch.
Sorry for the noise.
Martin
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Martin Furter wrote:
>
>
> On 23 Aug 2005, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>
> > "Peter N. Lundblad" <peter@famlundblad.se> writes:
> >
> > > So, I thin k the check should be changed so that it only checks that the
> > > prefix of the arguments that change are part of the repository root, but
> > > accept a path thereafter if it is identical in both strings. As I
> > > discussed with Karl on IRC, this shouldn't just silently error, but
> > > instead violently generate an error instead. Agreed?
> >
> > Let me see if I have this straight. Ensure that:
> >
> > - URL-of-WC-target is or is a child of FROM-URL,
> >
> > - upon removal of the relative path from FROM-URL to
> > URL-of-WC-target from TO-URL, we wind up the new repository root.
> >
> > Is that right?
>
> Will it be posible to circumvent that check (using --force) ?
>
> A scenario I had was that I had to move the location of some home
> directories in the repos.
>
> I thought if I "svn mv" them and do an "avn up $HOME" I get a huge mess,
> things get removed, some directories stay there with unversioned content,
> ...
>
> So i chose to do some repos surgery: dump the repos, move the home dirs by
> processing the dump (using the merge command of my svndumptool.py) and
> load that dump. After that relocate did the right thing. That wouldn't be
> possible if I can't circumvent that check.
>
> Thanks
> Martin
>
>
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