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

[Ian Wells <ijw@example.com>]

Not an answer to your question, but I did a large repo dump/undump when changing repo formats, and it was pretty painless.  The only problem was finding a bit of disk space for the dump to go in.

Yeah, all right, it's still not quite as convenient as 'cp' but it's not far off.

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

Hello all,

    I've been toying with getting Subversion after Josh's presentation
and (very) handy notes on getting started with subversion.

    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?

    I have goofed around with just copying a very small subversion
repository to a different location and it seemed not to mind too much
but I Got A Bad Feeling About This (tm).  What's the verdict?

Alain

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