2008/6/20 Hedley Finger <hfinger_at_handholding.com.au>:
>
> I just installed one of those multiport front panels on my computer with
> card readers, FireWire, USB, SATA, etc. This moved H:\MyRepo to N:\MyRepo.
>
> Of course, when I tried to SVN Commit, an error message reported that the
> repository was missing.
>
> After right-clicking around on my working copy (= local copy of files that
> actually get worked on, right?) I finally right-clicked on the repo root and
> got SVN Relocate to finally show up on the context menu. The dialogue
> showed H:\MyRepo as the current location and I dutifully typed N:\MyRepo as
> the new location. But then an error message said that the working copy
> would be copied over the repo and I would destroy/overwrite/cause Armageddon
> if I proceeded.
No it most certainly did not say that! Relocate does not overwrite
your repo with a WC.
Which version of TSVN are you using?
> So I cancelled out, backed up my working copy, and THEN did the relocate.
> Of course, everything went okay, and commit finally worked.
>
> But the error messages gave me a moment of real terror. It is not the
> working copy that is/has been relocated from the client's point of view, but
> the repository. And, of course, in this case the repository HAD moved.
>
> Has anybody else experienced this near-death situation? Perhaps the
> messages in the dialogues need to be modified to be more user friendly and
> state the real situation, and the help needs a bit more detail.
The warning (not error) message is necessary because people do use
relocate when they should not and screw up their working copies. It is
a very infrequent operation to need to perform, so the level of
warnings has been scaled up to reduce the number of problem reports
from people who used it incorrectly. And I think the help is already
fairly explicit about when you should and shouldn't use it. Which bit
was unclear?
Simon
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