Re: Migration from CentOS 7, Subversion 1.94 to Ubuntu 24.04, SVN 1.14.3

On 2024-06-18 23:19, Paul Leo wrote:
> If I try a relocate in TortoiseSVN, I get an error saying the uuid of
> the new server is different than the WC of the local repo.   I presume
> this is because of the DNS name change.


No, this is because the UUID is different.


> I've done some searching and have followed a suggestion and edited the
> wc.db and replaced old server uuid with new server uuid, tried the
> relocate command again and things seem to be working and pointing to
> new server.
>

No, see "svnadmin help setuuid"


> I also know that doing a new checkout from the new server may be the
> simplest solution. But perhaps some folks will not commit all of their
> changes before switchover because they are not ready.
>

Make the old one read-only via a pre-commit hook if you can.


Andreas