svn switch help requested

[Keven Ring <ke...@mitre.org>]

I have a repository with ~230 revisions.  Some of these revision were 
purely for testing purposes.  We would like to remove these revisions 
via a dump/load cycle, and then switch our working directories to 
utilize the newly loaded revisions.

I have managed to incrementally dump our repository, and load a fresh 
repository with the various dumps.  Everything seems to be in good 
working order.  According to the switch command, I should be able to use 
the --relocate option to update our working directories.

The problem that I am running into is 2-fold (possible related!?!)

1) The .svn/entries file still contains references to the "old" repository
2) Performing an "svn up" indicates that my WC is at revision 229 (makes 
sense, the old repository has 229 revisions in it)

Here's what I'm doing (after the dump/load cycle), from the parent 
directory of the WC:

svn switch --relocate http://hostname/svn_old/repos  
http://hostname/svn/repos repos

There are no error messages, however, the file repos/.svn/entries still 
contains references to http://hostname/svn_old/repos, and no references 
to http://hostname/svn/repos.

Is it possible that because the new repository has ~10 fewer revisions 
that the switch command will not simply not work?  Note, a fresh 
checkout of the new repository is the exact same as the old repository 
(except, of course, for the various files in each of the .svn directories).

Other pertinent information:
SVN 1.0.6-1, from RPM on summersoft.fay.ar.us for Fedora Core 1
BDB backend running on Solaris 9

Thanks for any help that can be provided!

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Re: svn switch help requested

[Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>]

Keven Ring wrote:
> I have a repository with ~230 revisions.  Some of these revision were
> purely for testing purposes.  We would like to remove these revisions
> via a dump/load cycle, and then switch our working directories to
> utilize the newly loaded revisions.
>
> I have managed to incrementally dump our repository, and load a fresh
> repository with the various dumps.  Everything seems to be in good
> working order.  According to the switch command, I should be able to use
> the --relocate option to update our working directories.

No - that's *not* what relocate does!

Relocate is for referencing the *same* repository via a different URL. If 
you have filtered revisions out of the repository, it is no longer the same 
repository.

You must throw away your old WCs and checkout new ones.


Max.


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