Reconstruct repository from checkouts?

[Alexander Skwar <al...@gmail.com>]

Hello!

I'm curious: Is it somehow possible, to "reconstruct" a Subversion
repository, if all you have is a checked out directory? I mean, does
such a check out hold enough information reg. who did what and
when in the past? Does it also hold information about what (ie. diffs)
has changed?

Best regards,

Alexander
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Re: Reconstruct repository from checkouts?

[Alexander Skwar <al...@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot to all who replied! Answered my question.

Cheers,
Alexander

2010/8/3 Tony Sweeney <ts...@omnifone.com>

> Short answer: no.
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> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm curious: Is it somehow possible, to "reconstruct" a
> > Subversion repository, if all you have is a checked out
> > directory? I mean, does such a check out hold enough
> > information reg. who did what and when in the past? Does it
> > also hold information about what (ie. diffs) has changed?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Alexander
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RE: Reconstruct repository from checkouts?

[Tony Sweeney <ts...@omnifone.com>]

Short answer: no. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: a.skwar@gmail.com [mailto:a.skwar@gmail.com] On Behalf 
> Of Alexander Skwar
> Sent: 03 August 2010 07:59
> To: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Reconstruct repository from checkouts?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm curious: Is it somehow possible, to "reconstruct" a 
> Subversion repository, if all you have is a checked out 
> directory? I mean, does such a check out hold enough 
> information reg. who did what and when in the past? Does it 
> also hold information about what (ie. diffs) has changed?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alexander
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Re: Reconstruct repository from checkouts?

[Arpad Ilia <ia...@inf.u-szeged.hu>]

> Hello!
> 
> I'm curious: Is it somehow possible, to "reconstruct" a Subversion
> repository, if all you have is a checked out directory? I mean, does
> such a check out hold enough information reg. who did what and
> when in the past? Does it also hold information about what (ie. diffs)
> has changed?

I think a working copy only stores the HEAD revision locally (so it can tell the changes that needs to be commited), so I don't think you can recreate a repository from a working copy.
You may be able to import it to a new repository but it would not contain the history (it would be at revision 1).
As far as I know only distributed version control systems store the whole repository history locally.

Arpad Ilia

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> Best regards,
> 
> Alexander
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