Re: [tlug] Moving a Subversion repository to another location

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 11/15/05, Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com> wrote:

>     One (probably really dumb) question that popped up while I've been
> trying to figure out a nice way to migrate the mess that I call my devel
> environment is:
>     Can you just copy a subversion repository to another host using cp
> and friends or should I really be following the instructions in the svn
> handbook regarding dumping a repository, tranferring that dumped setting
> to a new location/host, rebuilding the repository?

As long as the versions of SVN are the same, this should be completely
safe. Especially if you are using FSFS and not Berkely DB back-end
stores. Otherwise, do the dump-and-restore dance.

-Josh