Q: Relocating SVN repository after disk crash

[Kyle Ferrio <kf...@cox.net>]

I have a recovery scenario.  A repository is hosted on a disk which eventually dies.  The svn admin is able to recover the repo (yeah!) but for whatever reason has to restore it at a different mount point.

Meanwhile, one developer (at least) was working with multiple branches.  He would like to use 'relocate' to point his working copy to the newly restored (and moved) repository.  It would be nice if he could issue a single 'relocate' command to recursively patch up his working copy, honoring the branches to which he has switched.  Is this possible?  I seem to be missing something, because 'relocate' assumes that everything goes back into one branch -- for example, /trunk.  So it seems he needs to walk through every branch in his working copy and relocate it individually to the correct branch in the rstored repository.

What am I missing?

Thanks

Re: Q: Relocating SVN repository after disk crash

[François Beausoleil <fb...@ftml.net>]

Hello Kyle,

Kyle Ferrio wrote:

> 
> I have a recovery scenario.  A repository is hosted on a disk which 
> eventually dies.  The svn admin is able to recover the repo (yeah!) but 
> for whatever reason has to restore it at a different mount point.
>  
> Meanwhile, one developer (at least) was working with multiple branches.  
> He would like to use 'relocate' to point his working copy to the newly 
> restored (and moved) repository.  It would be nice if he could issue a 
> single 'relocate' command to recursively patch up his working copy, 
> honoring the branches to which he has switched.  Is this possible?  I 
> seem to be missing something, because 'relocate' assumes that everything 
> goes back into one branch -- for example, /trunk.  So it seems he needs 
> to walk through every branch in his working copy and relocate it 
> individually to the correct branch in the rstored repository.
>  
> What am I missing?

You must be using file:// access for this scenario, because if you were 
using servers, you wouldn't have to change anything in the working copy 
- just the server's config.

That being said, svn switch --relocate rewrites urls.

If svn info reported the following in two working copies:
URL: file:///server/svn/repos/project/trunk
URL: file:///server/svn/repos/project/branches/release-1.x

You can rewrite both with the following command:
svn switch --relocate file:///server/svn/repos \
                       file:///recovered/server/svn/repos

Hope that helps !
François



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