Re: issue regarding trying to add older log files to a new repository from an old one with different url

On 05/12/2007, Michael Firth <michael.firth@americalearns.net> wrote:
> To all,
>
> First off thank you for the responses and sorry for the confusion. I did a
> little more reading and yes you are correct that it's the .svn file and
> working copy I am referring to. I do apologize for the confusion.
>
> To explain better what I need to do if possible, is retrieve all the
> revision changes made to the working copy while they were tied to the old
> repository and be able to display those in the log output screen.
>
> To recreate the steps I used here is an example:
>
> 1. Working copy name is "directory" and it was previously tied to the old
> repository and a person could view the log history of revisions for any
> file.
>
> 2. The person then moves "directory" (with .svn file) over to a new server.
>
> 3. Person created new repository from files of the directory working copy
> with the same name on new server but uses the svn protocol versus the http
> which was the url protocol on the old repository.

There's your problem. The history is stored in the repository, not the
working copy. You just imported the last state of the WC into a new
repository. What you should have done was migrate the repository to
the new server, then do a 'relocate' on your working copy to inform it
that the server URL was changed.

> 4. Now the new repository is working like a charm, but now when you click
> on the "directory" folder I only see the new changes from the new repository
> and doesn't include the revisions from the old working copy.
>
> My question is it possible to retrieve those old revisions from the svn
> directory of the working copy.

That's going to be pretty difficult now. I don't think it's possible
to add the recent changes onto the old history, unless you do it
manually, one revision at a time.

Simon

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