Moving repository

Hello everybody,

I have read through the svn book and do some tests too, and to my knowledge there is no solution to my problem, but maybe I'm wrong and someone in the list knows how to do it.

For historical reasons we have a single repository for many products we develop. These products are totally independent so it's not a big deal to have them in the same repository or not. However, we would like to move some products to their own repositories for a more logical and "clean" layout.

I know how to do this, using svnadmin dump, svndumpfilter and svnadmin load, keeping the revisions numbers. I have tested this procedure and it works fine. My problem, however, is how to minimise the impact of this on the developers.

Ideally, the developers, after the migration to the new repository have been completed, should need only to do something like svn switch <NEW URL>, but it doesn't work, not even with the --relocate switch.

The problem could be because I want to relocate a WC of http://<host>/<old rep>/<product> to http://<host>/<new rep>. If I try it I have the error

svn: Relocate can only change the repository part of an URL

which, I think, means that I could only change it to something like http://<host>/<new-rep>/<product>

If I don't use the --relocate switch, then I have the error

svn: 'http://<host>/<new rep>'
is not the same repository as
'http://<host>/<old rep>'

which makes sense.

To be even clearer, the layout we have at the moment is something like this:

<host>
   |___ <old rep>
            |_______ <product 1>
                          |________ <dir 1>
                          |________ <dir 2>
                          |________ <dir 3>
            |_______ <product 2>
                          |________ <dir A>
                          |________ <dir B>
                          |________ <dir C>
            |_______ <product 3>
            |_______ <product 4>

And we would like to change it to something like

<host>
  |___ <new rep 1>
            |________ <dir 1>
            |________ <dir 2>
            |________ <dir 3>
  |___ <new rep 2>
            |________ <dir A>
            |________ <dir B>
            |________ <dir C>
  |___ <new rep 3>
  |___ <new rep 4>

The only solution I could think of is for developers to delete their old WCs and check out new ones. But this means that if they are not careful they could loose their changes, that's why a solution using svn to "relocate" the WCs would be more desirable.

Any thoughts? Oh, and by the way, we are using Subversion 1.3.0

Thanks
Giulio

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Received on Wed Mar 21 10:42:38 2007