On Mar 28, 2008, at 17:12, Victor Stone wrote:
> Using 1.4.3 I'm getting the dreaded "Relocate can only change the
> repository part of an URL" when doing switch --relocate
>
> I've looked through the source and found this error message exactly
> once in libsvn_wc/relocate.c and can't figure what it could be.
>
> I have no extra path information (which would be stripped off in the
> function mentioned above anyway) and I've verified that my 'from' URL
> is the exact same URL as that in .svn/entries file. I'm assuming it's
> failing right at the root because it's entries file is not being
> re-written.
>
> One special note: before I tried doing this at the root I cd'd into a
> leaf node of the project and performed the 'relocate' command there
> and it worked (!) which gave me confidence to try it at the root,
> where I started getting the error. I have since tried it in another
> leaf node and it failed again.
Please give us more information:
What is the old and new URL of the repository?
What does "svn info" show in the working copy?
Can you reproduce this problem in a clean environment? If so, can you
give us a reproduction recipe for this issue (beginning with creating
the empty repository)?
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