On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:42, Zack Galbreath wrote:
> I need to move an SVN repository from one domain to another. I
> would like to do this in a seamless fashion so that users don't
> have to run svn switch or check out a fresh copy of the repository
> from the new location. Is this possible?
No, I don't think it's possible. Instruct your users to "svn switch --
relocate" after relocating the repository.
> I tried to accomplish this by using apache2's RedirectMatch
> directive. Here's what I put into the config file on the old server:
>
> RedirectMatch permanent ^/svn/reposName/(.*)$ http://www.new-
> domain.com/svn/reposName/$1
>
> If I access the repository through a web browser using the old
> address the redirect works properly. If I try to do an svn
> checkout using the old address it fails with the following message:
>
> bash-3.2$ svn co http://www.old-domain.com/svn/reposName/trunk
> reposName
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/reposName/trunk'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/reposName/trunk': 301 Moved Permanently
> (http://www.old-domain.com)
>
> I've confirmed that checking out the repository by using the new
> address works properly, so it's not a misconfiguration on the new
> server. Is what I'm trying to do possible, or am I going to have
> to tell all of my users to run svn switch?
Redirects are a nice idea, which I tried myself with earlier versions
of Subversion, but Subversion does not seem to support them.
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Received on 2008-01-17 09:02:51 CET