svn switch --relocate needs access the repo(s)?

In older versions of subversion, it seems that the --relocate switch would
let you change the URL to your repository without needing to contact the
old repository nor the new one. It would simply make the changes to the
local working copy.

In current documentation here:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svn.c.switch.html

It looks like that has changed, and now it insists on accessing the URL
before it will carry out the changes to the working copy.

Is there any way to get the old behavior again? I tried the --force
switch, but it still fails if it can't contact the new repo.

My situation is this: I need to run a switch --relocate under conditions
where I can't connect to the new repo, but still need to make the changes
to the working copy so that I can access the repo properly later.

Any ideas?

I'm all in favor of sanity checking, as long as there's a way to override
it with a flag for "i know what I'm doing", which I thought is what
--force was intended to be. Maybe a "don't access the network" flag would
be even better.

If svn itself refuses to do it, I guess I'm back to using perl or sed to
do the replacement in the .svn/entries files...

Thanks,
Mac

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