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Re: Single user repos/working copy, multi-boot

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-03-03 16:39:51 CET

Chris Smith wrote:
> SVN,
> Everything is great.
> I have a dual boot with XP and Gentoo.
> A fat32 partition with my fsfs repository and working copy is between the
> main OS partitions. d:\ gets mounted as /mnt/dmz when I boot Gentoo.
> I understand how to write a script to detect the URL setting for the
> working copy, and that I could use >svn switch to tweak that setting.
> However, if the url setting is for the 'other' OS, I get an error.
> a) Should I just switch over to the 'other' system, effect the
> change, and reboot, or
> b) Can I just use a script regex to update the url members of the XML
> files safely? IOW, is that information only living in the XML.
> (yeah, I could experiment, but why not just ask?)

Aaargh! DO NOT HAND EDIT THE XML!

"svn switch --relocate" is the proper command to use.

If this doesn't work for you then show us the exact usage and exact error
message.

Max.

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