On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/5/2011 12:27 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: > >> >> > Until you manually copy over the $repodir/db/uuid file, this is >> true. >> > That's one of the "relevant configuraton files" I referred to. >> >> So, are you saying svnsync will be faster than a dump/load? >> >> I didn't know the guid was stored in a file. >> >> >> svnsync is slower than dump/load. I think the issue is that you can >> keep the old repository online during the process and switch when you >> are ready. >> >> BTW, why copy a file you are not supposed to when you could just use the >> svnadmin setuuid command to make the Repository UUID match between the >> two repositories? No need to involve yourself in the internals of the >> repository when there is a public interface to do it for you. >> > > Can you copy from source to dest in one step with the interface (or > svnsync) like scp or rsync will do for you? > Are you talking about the setuuid command? $ svnadmin help setuuid setuuid: usage: svnadmin setuuid REPOS_PATH [NEW_UUID] Reset the repository UUID for the repository located at REPOS_PATH. If NEW_UUID is provided, use that as the new repository UUID; otherwise, generate a brand new UUID for the repository. Script it however you choose. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
