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Re: Lost my repository, had to reinstall from backup to a different location/protocol

From: Jim Lynch <jimlynch1_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-03-09 21:17:06 CET

On 3/9/07, Jim Lynch <jimlynch1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/9/07, Andy Levy <andy.levy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > No need to touch your .svn directories - it's an easy way to hose your
> > working copy.
> >
> > Use svn switch --relocate <NEWURL>
>
>
> That didn't work, it gave me an error and generated a usage: block for svn
> switch. So got to looking at the docs and tried:
>
> cd test ( directory under svn control)
> svn switch --relocate svn+ssh:/jlynch@<oldlocation>/home/jlynch/svntest
> svn://jim@<newlocation>/svntest
>
> That hangs forever. So I deleted test and recreated it ( identical to the
> original test directory) and tried:
> cd test ( directory under svn control)
> svn switch --relocate
> svn+ssh:/jlynch@<oldlocation>/home/jlynch/svntest/trunk
> svn://jim@<newlocation>/svntest/trunk
>
> This also hangs forever. No error messages, it just sits there and stares
> at me, blinking.
>
> Jim.
>

I noticed that this CentOS system was running 1.1 so I upgraded to 1.4 and
now I get error messages saying that my change "is not a valid relocation.

I know that I was able to check out using the old url before and I know I
can checkout by using the new url. What exactly might be the problem?

JIm.
Received on Fri Mar 9 21:17:55 2007

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