The convention on this E-mail list is not to top-post, because it is
more difficult to follow the thread. Thanks.
On 9/13/2016 7:45 AM, Tom Sorensen wrote:
Hi –
Thank you for returning my email. To answer your question in the first
sentence, yes, I am talking about the files within the repository
tree. Let me first explain that the current repository is
running on Linux. I access the repository through TortoiseSVN on my
workstation using the link that connects me to the repository on the
Linux machine such as, https://pathtorepository/
Below is an example of the TortoiseSVN repository display header.
File Extension Revision Author
Size Date
Accounting App 70 jjones
01/01/2012
Budget App 135
bsmith 04/16/1996
InventoryApp 16 tfoxworth 03/22/2001
When I create the dump file, I do so by directly logging into the
Linux machine. From the command line, I do the following;
$svnadmin dump /app/svn/csvn/data/repositories/nameofrepository –r
7500 > prod1.dump
The prod1.dump file is create and I have a sys admin copy it to the
Windows machine. I create an empty repository on the Windows machine
using subversion edge(collabnet) administration console. I then
perform the svnadmin load command. (I don’t remember the exact syntax
but I use force uuid). The load is successful and when I open the
repository using TortoiseSVN on the Windows machine, all of the
Author’s names, in all the folders and sub folders, in all revisions
are the same, such as bsmith. Each time I do this, the Author’s name
will change, but the effect is the same. All of the Author’s names in
all of the directories and sub directories contain the same name. I’d
like to keep the Author’s names as they are displayed in the
repository before the move.
Note:
At one time I had used a repository that was on a dev box, one that I
used for experimentation. I was able to load the entire repository
without having to do the latest revision. Everything
displayed as expected. I tried to do a full dump of the production
instance but the resulting dump file was so large that I ran out of
room. I also tried to dump it to a zip file, but didn’t have
much luck.
When I talked about "repository files", I was referring to the back end
files managed by the server (which are read by "svnadmin dump" and
written by "svnadmin load"). You are talking about the front end
display in TortoiseSVN, which is a separate product on top of Subversion.
Someone (not me) on the Subversion E-mail list might know the answer to
your question, but you should probably ask on the TortoiseSVN E-mail
list. Good luck.
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