Re: svnsync init is failing

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Reddy, Raghuram IN BLR SISL <
Raghuram.reddy_at_siemens.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
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> I going to sync with two repositories (Master and Slave), while
> initializing destination machine I am getting message
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> svnsync: Cannot initialize a repository with content in it
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> Please let me know what could be the problem while initialization.
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> Syntax: svnsync init http://YOURSLAVEBOX/sync/THEREPOSITORY
> http://YOURMASTERBOX/svn/THEREPOSITORY --username syncuser --password
> syncuserpassword
>
> svnsync: Cannot initialize a repository with content in it
>

The slave (destination) has a repository that is not empty. That is, it has
a revision that is greater than 0. For the slave to be a mirror, you need to
create an empty repository and then svnsyn init it once. After that you just
keep syncing.

rgds
-Hari

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Received on 2009-02-02 06:26:45 CET