Re: Editing properties (externals) in an automated manner

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Dane Morris <vindil778_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a very large svn project that i have moved from one server to
another. The problem is that the externals point to the old server name. I
was wondering if there was a way i could automatically change all the old
server names to the new server names; or at least manage to get at the
database that stores all of these names in order to change them myself.
>

I think you're out of luck, but you should be able to script it if you have
a very large number of them, using "svn proplist" and "svn propget" and
"svn propset".

This is the sort of reason SVN introduced relative paths and special syntax
like ^/ for the repository root, that will remain valid across server
moves. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
about halfway down the page.

When you go through correcting your externals, I'd recommend using those
special relative syntaxes to prevent it happening again.

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Received on 2014-09-13 03:20:13 CEST