RE: Headache caused by svn svn migration

Hi,

Greg Ward wrote:
> It's no longer possible to checkout old-ish revisions of cvs2svn:
> svn: warning: Error handling externals definition for 'trunk/svntest':
> svn: warning: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in
> response to OPTIONS request for
>
'http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest'

Can you checkout cvs2svn using "svn co --ignore-externals ...",
then figure out the external using "svn proplist" and check it out
manually?

> (I bet they also broke all their old revision numbers by moving
> into apache's mega-repo, which is a very surprising change!)

You can convert an old SVN revision number into a new one by
adding 840074.  See:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/README?revision=919064&view=mark
up

Kind regards,

Jon


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