>>>>> Bob Sandiford <[email protected]>: > Second try - sorry for any duplication... > The short answer is, 'yes'.
> I just migrated our repositories to a new server, for some of which we > had been using svnmerge against multiple branches. > Read the documentation on the 'svnadmin' binary, which will allow you > to dump your repo, and also allow you to reload it. Ah, ok. Dumping and restoring would switch all references to the original host with the new one? > You can also force the old server repo's UUID into the migrated ones, > so that existing checked out code on workstations will 'think' it's > the same code. Right now the repo has been rsync'd over to the new host, not dumped and restored. That would preserve the UUID wouldn't it? > (We also did a bit of dns magic so that the old svn server name > resolves to the new server - when staff came in after the migration, > they needed to re-authenticate with their first svn commands, but then > everything 'just worked'.) Yes, thought of that. Unfortunately I'd used the real name for the host in the URL. The new host will get a DNS alias instead. > Anyway - if you use the svnadmin to dump and load the repos, then all > the structure of the repo is preserved, as are the svn properties of > the various 'root' folders (i.e. the trunk, branches, etc), which is > where svnmerge places the merge tracking info. That info does not > contain any server info - just info relative to the repository itself. Right. > For example, in our trunk: > svn proplist . -v Ah, that was shorter than svn proplist followed by a propget with the property name (lots of typing). :-) > will show you all the svn properties and their values for the root > folder. The svnmerge tracking will look something like this: > svnmerge-integrated > /<project_name>/branches/<branch_name>:1-12992,13248 > all relative to the repository (we have multiple projects in a single > repository - you may have just a single project, so you might just see > "/branches/<branch_name>:xxxx" Thanx for the info! Really clarifying! :-) - Steinar _______________________________________________ Svnmerge mailing list [email protected] http://www.orcaware.com/mailman/listinfo/svnmerge
