Re: Is there any way to use the switch command cross-repository?

On Feb 23, 2007, at 11:01, James Oltmans wrote:

>>> Is there any way to use svn switch in a way that will go
>>> cross-repository? The code bases in each repository are very
>>> similar but
>>> we're bringing in a project as a branch off the main trunk that was
>>> started as its own repository. I'd like to be able to switch
>>> everyone's
>>> working copies to point at this other repository rather than the old
>>> ones but subversion won't let me.
>>
>> Are you using svn switch or svn switch --relocate?
>
> Hmmm I didn't know about that... but I tried it and that's not working
> either.
> svn switch --relocate http://scm/svn/liberty_server/dev_1.0
> http://scm/svn/bolo/branches/bolo_ui .
> svn: Relocate can only change the repository part of an URL
>
> Does that mean what I'm trying to do isn't going to work?

Suppose your repositories are at http://www.example.com/svn/

"svn switch" is for switching your working copy to a new place in the
same repository. For example, if you have a working copy of
fooproject's trunk, and you now want to work on a barbranch, you
would use "svn switch http://www.example.com/svn/fooproject/branches/
barbranch"

"svn switch --relocate" is for when you've moved your repository to a
different URL, for example the hostname changed from www.example.com
to svn.example.com. Then you would use "svn switch --relocate http://
www.example.com http://svn.example.com". The internal unique ID of
the old and new repositories must be the same (e.g. it must in fact
be the same repository that has just moved somewhere else; you cannot
use this to link a working copy of one repository with a different
repository that has a different history and a different unique ID).

So I would say that no, what you want to do is not possible. People
will have to check out new working copies.

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