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Re: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository

From: Gingko <from_tigris_at_nospam.homelinux.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:01:30 +0100

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrey Repin" <anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru>
To: "Gingko" <from_tigris_at_nospam.homelinux.org>;
<users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository

> Greetings, Gingko!
>
>> I have a (now theoretical) question :
>
>> Suppose I have a repository that is a mirror repository of a remote
>> source
>> repository, regularly synced using svnsync.
>
>> Suppose now that the source repository become broken or deleted for any
>> reason (server breakdown, fire, etc)
>> So the only available copy of the repository is now the synced mirror
>> repository.
>
>> How could I promote my mirror repository in order to have it becoming the
>> new source repository on the mirror server or on another server ?
>
>> (I think that just using the mirror repository without change is not
>> enough
>> as it contains somewhere inside it information about the old source
>> repository, given at the beginning by "svnsync initialize", which would
>> certainly need to be removed)
>
> svn help switch
> http://svnbook.org/

Thank you very much for your answer, but I'm sorry, this is not an answer to
my question.

"svn switch" is about changing URLs in working copies, I know how to do this
(actually I made several of these changes today).

But what I want to know is what I have to do on the REPOSITORY side.

Gingko
Received on 2010-11-06 02:02:18 CET

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