Re: Moving a repository (in Windows-land)

Thanks. And regarding the repository growing, I think I misinterpreted part of the section "Migrating Repository Data Elsewhere". I thought, perhaps, since "svnadmin dump" expresses every file in full (page 128), that a subsequent "load" would not re-compress the differences. However, since a "copy and paste" will suffice in my case, that is what I will do. Thanks for the tip on '--relocate'.

Laker

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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt_at_satorlaser.com>
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 9:17:13 AM
Subject: Re: Moving a repository (in Windows-land)

On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Laker Netman wrote:
> Can I simply shutdown svnserve on my machine, move the entire folder
> structure to the other box and start up svnserve there?

Yes. A repository contains nothing that is outside that structure, which you
can freely move around.

> My goal is to keep all version history intact and not significantly grow
> the size of the repo in the move process (which appears would happen in the
> "dump/load" scenario, according to the SVN book).

It shouldn't grow in size, as I understand it, can you tell me what you're
referring to?

The other thing you will have to watch out for is existing working copies,
those still point to the old location of the repository. Take a look at
the 'switch' command with the '--relocate' option.

Uli

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