This is doable (I've done it). The shadow repository needs to have the same UUID as the source, and you either have to repoint the DNS at it or svn switch all existing clients. See Andrey's link for the skinny.
Tony. -----Original Message----- From: Gingko [mailto:from_tig...@nospam.homelinux.org] Sent: 05 November 2010 23:50 To: Subversion User List Subject: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository Hello again, I have a (now theoretical) question : Suppose I have a repository that is a mirror repository of a remote source repository, regularly synced using svnsync. Suppose now that the source repository become broken or deleted for any reason (server breakdown, fire, etc) So the only available copy of the repository is now the synced mirror repository. How could I promote my mirror repository in order to have it becoming the new source repository on the mirror server or on another server ? (I think that just using the mirror repository without change is not enough as it contains somewhere inside it information about the old source repository, given at the beginning by "svnsync initialize", which would certainly need to be removed) Gingko ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
