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Re: Unify Multiple Repositories, then switch?

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2010d_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:36:14 -0500

On Oct 1, 2010, at 16:20, Andrew N Marshall wrote:

>
> I'm trying to merge multiple Subversion repositories into a single repository without too much hassle on my users.
>
> I did roughly the following:
>
>> svnadmin dump old_repo> old_repo.dump
>> svnadmin load combined_repo --parent-dir old_repo_path< old_repo.dir
>> cd old_working_dir
>> svn switch http://server/combined_repo_root/old_repo_path
> svn: Repository UUID '47910ef9-e52f-470c-a5c0-0a25e3386063' doesn't match expected UUID '4b1b6bb6-f4d7-4649-9891-0302873c425d'
>
>
> I also tried...
>
>> svn switch --relocate http://server/old_repo_root http://server/combined_repo_root/old_repo_path
> svn: The repository at 'http://server/combined_repo_root/old_repo_path
> ' has uuid '47910ef9-e52f-470c-a5c0-0a25e3386063', but the WC has '4b1b6bb6-f4d7-4649-9891-0302873c425d'
>
>
> So switch doesn't work the way I expected, and obviously I can't make multiple old repos share the same repository id. What are my alternatives to perform the switch?

Users must check out new working copies.
Received on 2010-10-01 23:36:56 CEST

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