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Re: Best approach to break up a repository

From: Mattius McLaughlin <Mattius_McLaughlin_at_pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:54:01 -0800

On 03/01/12 19:40, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2012, at 15:46, Mattius McLaughlin wrote:
>
>> I'd like to break each of those projects into separate repositories. Given the number of designers we have, it's a bit unreasonable to expect everyone to recreate every workspace so I'd like to keep all URLs the same.
> There's no choice; when you split the big repository into smaller repositories, each repository must be given its own UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier), different from the big repository's UUID. A working copy is matched to a particular repository by UUID. Once you have new repositories, you must check out new working copies. No exceptions.
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>
I know it's not necessarily best practice, but one could get around this
with a svnadmin setuuid $old-uuid, no?
Received on 2012-03-02 19:54:38 CET

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