Changing versioned properties in older revisions,

["Mccredie, Matthew G" <ma...@intel.com>]

I would like to change the 'svn:externals' property on all revisions of
a project because the host name of repository that it points to is
changing. The repository isn't changing, only the name
(svn.something.com/repository -> svn.something.com/foo/respository). I
know how to change the HEAD, which is fine and solves most of my issues.
The minor issue is that if someone tries to check out a revision from
before the repository changed its name the externals will all be broken.
I don't think it will happen very often but I'm the person who will have
to fix it when it does. It would be easier if I could just preemptively
prevent that situation.

 

Matt McCredie

 

Re: Changing versioned properties in older revisions,

["Peter D. Stout" <pd...@edgedynamics.com>]

I have had this same problem and found no good solution.  One thing that I attempted, but didn't work was to configure Apache to return a redirect from the old location to the new location.  Unfortunately, the Subversion client errors out rather than follow the redirect.

Does anybody know why it does not follow the redirect?

					-Peter

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:09:53 -0700, Mccredie, Matthew G wrote:

> I would like to change the 'svn:externals' property on all revisions of
> a project because the host name of repository that it points to is
> changing. The repository isn't changing, only the name
> (svn.something.com/repository -> svn.something.com/foo/respository). I
> know how to change the HEAD, which is fine and solves most of my issues.
> The minor issue is that if someone tries to check out a revision from
> before the repository changed its name the externals will all be broken.
> I don't think it will happen very often but I'm the person who will have
> to fix it when it does. It would be easier if I could just preemptively
> prevent that situation.
>
> Matt McCredie

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