On Jul 26, 2006, at 03:28, Tom Vaughan wrote:
> we migrated a subversion repository from one machine to another.
> about a week later, we had a harddrive failure on the new machine.
> unfortunately we hadn't put the new machine on the backup schedule.
> so we've lost the changesets since the migration, but that's not a
> big deal. i have the "canonical" version checked out. but i'm about
> 50 revision numbers beyond the old repository. what i want to do
> (other suggestions welcomed) is restore the old repository, check
> in what i have, and then "add 50" to the repository version number.
> this way everyone else will be none the wiser, and have to update
> to my canonical copy before they check-in (assuming they have
> missed a couple of the most recent check ins). i hope this is
> clear. so my question is how to "add 50"? i didn't find this in the
> svn book. thanks much.
Not possible. You must stop using all old working copies, as they are
now invalid and it will cause endless problems to attempt to check
things in from them. You must create new working copies, manually
migrate over any changes, commit these, and continue with the new
lower revision numbers.
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Received on Wed Jul 26 03:44:13 2006