Re: Migration from CentOS 7, Subversion 1.94 to Ubuntu 24.04, SVN 1.14.3
Paul Leo <[email protected]>
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List responders - Once again thanks everyone for taking the time to respond and all of your suggestions. On 6/19/2024 2:58 AM, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > Den tis 18 juni 2024 kl 23:19 skrev Paul Leo > <[email protected]>: > ... > > The reason I am posting here instead of TortoiseSVN is I would > like to know whether it would be safer to have folks just do a new > checkout from new server once old server is shutdown, (and diff > folders if needed) instead of trying relocate, or should I have > them edit the wc.db and replace or try and change the uuid on the > new server to match the old one. > > > Since you use TortoiseSVN, the other option would be to remove the > .svn folder and do a new checkout in the same directory. TortoiseSVN > is quite nice that it picks up the existing files and says "Versioned" > on them and you can usually continue as before. The command line > client seems to mark the existing files as "Conflict" and require a > lot of manual work to resolve. Of course, test it first but it might > be an easier solution than manually carrying over any changes to the > new working copy. > > I'd avoid editing wc.db - it usually works but I'd be careful asking > endusers to do it. > > Kind regards, > Daniel >