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Grumpy
Asked: 2012-10-11 02:13:43 +0800 CST

Committing to a new SVN server

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My old svn repo is no longer accessible, the physical server no longer exists. So, I'm going to be making a new one. I still have all the actual data plus newly modified and added files since. I'm wondering if it's possible to just commit all the files to the new repo. Or will I have to remove all the .svn files, and begin anew?

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  1. Best Answer

    When you checkout a subversion repository you don't fetch all the metadata. because Subversion is not distributed as Git for example. So I am afraid you lost your history, revision changes, etc.

    So as you guessed you will need to remove the .svn metada and just create a new repo and commit everything again.

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  2. It would be much easier to help you if you describe what do you mean by "svn repo died". What happened exactly? Don't you have a backup? I've never encountered a case when repository is completely inaccessible (unless it is FUBAR).

    BTW if the issue is just about connectivity to Subversion server: if you still have access to the machine where your repository is stored you can always move the repository to another server.

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  3. Paraphrase of @bahrep and @golja

    If you have only Working Copy and can't get accessin any form* to repository data (high- or low-level) - you lost all your history.

    Can't recall Subversion's behavior in this case, but you can at least to try (for "creating new repo" as last resort)

    • Switch your WC to the URL of new empty repository (if name-change happened)
    • Without removing .svn metadata from WC commit data in current state (which may fail, because you have REV N in repo and try to commit to repo with HEAD revision 0)
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