Re: svn switch help requested

Keven Ring wrote:
> I have a repository with ~230 revisions. Some of these revision were
> purely for testing purposes. We would like to remove these revisions
> via a dump/load cycle, and then switch our working directories to
> utilize the newly loaded revisions.
>
> I have managed to incrementally dump our repository, and load a fresh
> repository with the various dumps. Everything seems to be in good
> working order. According to the switch command, I should be able to use
> the --relocate option to update our working directories.

No - that's *not* what relocate does!

Relocate is for referencing the *same* repository via a different URL. If
you have filtered revisions out of the repository, it is no longer the same
repository.

You must throw away your old WCs and checkout new ones.

Max.

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Received on Fri Oct 1 01:48:05 2004