"Gerald Richter" <richter@ecos.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> we have a large svn repository we need to split into mutiple, so I run a
> svnadmin dump and svmdumpfilter to split out the needed subtree and loaded
> it into a new svn repository. This works fine and I get exact the desired
> result.
>
> My problem is there are a lot of exiting working copis and I want to be able
> to switch them without haveing to do a new checkout (because actually
> nothing changed and if all users do a new checkout this would cause a lot of
> network traffic over a slow link). So I tried svn switch --relocate which
> works, but doing a svn up afterwards gives me a "Reference to non-existent
> revision XXX' in the Apache error log.
>
> Of course this revision does not exist, because of the svndumpfilter, the
> new respository has fewer revision then the old one.
Did you run svndumpfilter with the --drop-empty-revs option? If you
want to preserve those working copies, *don't do that*. If you drop
empty revisions, there's no way you'll get all those working copies
synchronized again.
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Received on Fri Feb 20 08:16:21 2004