RE: changing the root repository name without losing revision history

From: Itamar O [mailto:itamarost_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2010 6:45
To: Charan
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: changing the root repository name without losing revision history

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Charan <charan314_at_gmail.com<mailto:charan314_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Guys,

Is it possible to change the repository name without losing the history. Currently all my code is under the repository http://local.svn.com/svn/repoe5r/. I want the name repoe5r to be changed to SVNROOT. Can I do that?

Thanks

The history of the repository will remain untouched if you rename the repository.
Of course you will need access to the server to do this.
You just need to "switch relocate" all working copies to the new URL.

Just to make sure - is "repoe5r" the repository, or a directory within a repository named "svn"?
(my answered assumed it is a repository)

One thing to note, if you have used svn:externals to reference this repository changing the url will break them (with the exception of certain relative references).

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Received on 2010-07-14 02:43:53 CEST