RE: Moving locks from one repository to another

> > I am going to move a Subversion repository to a new machine. I was
> > planning to use svnadmin dump / load, because I need to
> filter out a
> > confidential document that accidentally got committed.
> >
> > My question is: what will happen to the various locks that
> users are
> > holding? There are quite a few, because we keep Word
> documents in the
> > repository. Is it possible to migrate them to the new
> server - say by
> > copying the contents of the db/locks folder?
>
> The dump format does not have a place for lock information.
> All files will be unlocked when you import the dump into a
> new repository. :-/

That's what I remember from the last time I did this... :-(
I hadn't anticipated it and the aftermath was a bit painful.

My cunning plan is to zip up the contents of the db/locks folder
on the old repository, and unzip it into the new one. I've looked
at the files inside, and they're a bunch of files named according
to the md5sum of the locked paths, sharded by the first three
characters. They contain either lock token information (if they
refer to leaf files) or a list of pointers to child md5sums (if
they refer to folders).

So there's nothing in there that looks repository-specific,
especially since I'm planning to keep the same repository UUID.
The only way I anticipate coming unstuck is if there's a bit of
data somewhere _else_ in the repository, which says, for example,
that there should be exactly 782 lock tokens present.

Anyway, I've got a support ticket raised with CollabNet for this
at the moment, so I'll see what they say. I might try a little
experiment moving a small sandbox repository to a new host too.

Thanks for your reply. I forgot to mention I was using an FSFS
repository, but I guess that's obvious by now. I'll report the
outcome to the list when I've finished doing the real move.

regards,

--
Jon Ashley
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