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Re: Does 'svnamin load' invalidate existing working directories?

From: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.kolinko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:48:34 +0400

2012/2/2 Sam Johnson <samuel.johnson_at_gmail.com>:
> I recently used svn dump / svndumpfilter to extract a partial path from one
> repository. The dump was created successfully, and I dropped empty revs and
> renumbered revs.
>
> I used 'svnadmin load --ignore-uid MyRepo < test.dump' to load the dump into
> an existing repository. The repo had 19 revisions before I started and
> svnadmin load ran successfully, reporting the addition of 5 revisions.
>
> if I go to an existing working directory for this repo and and run update,
> it reports "At revision 19", instead of updating to revision 24. Using the
> TortoiseSVN repository browser on this working directory, I don't see any
> evidence of my loaded changes. However, If I checkout the repository into a
> new working folder, it correctly reports all 24 revisions, and the
> TortoiseSVN repository browser shows all 24 revisions.
>
> Is this expected behavior? Do I have to tell my users to delete their
> working copies, and re-check-out, if I run svnadmin load?
>

It should not happen. The "svn up" command should have been updated
that wc to rev.24. There is no need to create a new checkout.

Maybe that wc was looking at a different repository (e.g. to a backup
copy of the original one)? That would explain the thing.

What versions of software are you using?

Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
Received on 2012-02-02 20:49:08 CET

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