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Moving a repository with svn:externals using absolute paths (URLs)

From: Brisset, Nicolas <nicolas.brisset_at_airbus.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:32:59 +0000

Hi,

We’ve been using svn successfully for years on a server, and now have to migrate to a new one. We are hit by the known issue of svn:externals containing absolute paths to the repo to be moved, since we started with versions <1.5 without support for relative URLs.
We’ve been researching how to properly do this, knowing that we handle certified SW on that server, so losing data or corrupting the repo is not allowed, and we want to be able to go back in time and checkout an old state at any time.

We’ve experimented the svndumptool (http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/) referenced for instance in this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204616/how-to-migrate-all-urls-in-svnexternals-properties-across-a-repository
It seems to be the only tool doing what we want, and it apparently works, but before doing the change on the production repo we’d like to know what experiences there are with this tool, and if it’s safe to use – or if there is a better alternative.

Thanks for your feedback if you have any experience with this,

Nicolas

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