Hello, I just created a new google code project and have a question about svnsync. The code I intend to have google host is under Subversion control and has over 2000 commits. Obviously I don't want to loose all that precious history. I want to move my entire existing repository from my privately brewed server to google, and then get rid of my old server entirely. i.e. I want to effectively replace my old private server with google code hosting. I found in the FAQ that one should use svnsync to import an svn repository: http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=56673&topic=10386 I'm wondering, though, if this is the correct thing to do for a complete migration. Reading the svn documentation: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.migrate It seems that svnadmin dump / load would be the command to use for a repository migration, but you do not seem to support this. So my concrete question is this: Is the use of svnsync as you discribe it in your FAQ *exactly* equivalent to using svnadmin dump / load? If not, what is the difference? My concern comes from reading a couple of paragraphs in the svn documentation, section "Repository Replication" http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.replication
"...For this reason, while svnsync cannot demand that the target repository be read-only, allowing the revision history in the target repository to change by any mechanism other than the mirroring process is a recipe for disaster." "Do not modify a mirror repository in such a way as to cause its version history to deviate from that of the repository it mirrors. The only commits and revision property modifications that ever occur on that mirror repository should be those performed by the svnsync tool." So is svnsync a tool for mirroring only? Or can it be used to perform an effective migration? Many thanks, Victor. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
