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

From: Sam Johnson <samuel.johnson_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:30:30 -0500

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Konstantin Kolinko
<knst.kolinko_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>

Konstantin,

Thank you, I don't know how I overlooked it, but the wc was indeed looking
at an old repository, and my successful checkouts were from the newly
updated repository. How embarrassing :)

Sam
Received on 2012-02-02 21:31:27 CET

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