Re: [viewvc-users] viewvc svn revealing fullpaths

Fantastic!  Thanks for the great info.  Yeah, I see a billion
"/usr..." changed path records.  I'll post to the subversion list
for further svn investigation.  :)

-Adam


> Technically, you created the repository just fine.  (It's hard to mess that
> step up.)  I think you may have just populated it in a way that doesn't
> reflect what you wanted.  Just to be sure, run
> 
>   $ svn log -vq file:///usr/home/svn/repository
> 
> If you see "changed path" records that begin with "/usr/..." then you've
> managed to actually created versioned directories in the repository above
> the modules which you probably intended to live in the root of the
> repository.  It's not world-ending stuff.  You can fix the problem with
> regular Subversion commands:
> 
>   $ export REPOS_URL=file:///usr/home/svn/repository
>   $ svn move $REPOS_URL/usr/home/svn/repository/Module_1 \
>              $REPOS_URL/Module_1 \
>              -m "Move Module_1 to the root of the repository"
>   $ svn move $REPOS_URL/usr/home/svn/repository/Module_2 \
>              $REPOS_URL/Module_2 \
>              -m "Move Module_2 to the root of the repository"
>   [...]
> 
> Or you can try to rebuild the history of the repository as if it was always
> the way you wanted it using 'svnadmin dump' (to dump the repository
> history), 'svndumpfilter include' (to filter that dumpfile by the paths you
> want to keep), some 'sed' magic to fixup the paths in the filtered dumpfile,
> and then 'svnadmin load' into a new repository of the filtered data.
> 
> That conversation is more appropriate to the [email protected]
> list, though.
> 
> > Ah, right.  I suppose when I want multiple repos I'll use the
> > root_parents directive and *not* svn_roots, right?
> 
> You can if you wish, or you can explicitly list each root.  And to be clear,
> you can use root_parents right now if you want, just set the value to point
> to the parent directory of the repository, not the repository itself.
> ViewVC won't be bothered that there's only one repository in the root parent
> directory, and you won't have to remember to change that value later when
> create additional repositories.
> 
> -- 
> C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
> CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand

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