I'm learning some gotchas with svnsync this week. As per my typical method of learning I try 3 wrong ways before finally realizing the right way to do most things.
We have about a 1GB svn repo on Ubuntu at -r 3738, and I'm trying to get it mirrored on Win 7 running VisualSVN. I created the mirror repository fine, ran svnsync init and svnsync sync on it, then as it started going from -r 1, -r 2, -r 3..., I realized it would take a week or more to fetch all nearly 4K commits. So I stopped it, deleted it, started over and did an svnadmin dump --> svnadmin load from the dump -- which ran/imported much faster, but now when I try to initialize the sync, I get svnsync: Cannot initialize a repository with content in it D'OH! I forgot to svnsync init after creating the empty mirror repo. Whoops. So, my question is, before I whack a perfectly fine "almost mirrored" repository, can I svn propset -r 0 all the stuff needed by svnsync manually, to start syncing at -r 3738? Or can I set up the repo again (svnadmin create immediately followed by svnsync init) and then svnadmin load (since load from a dump is so much faster)? It would seem odd that the only way to mirror a repo is to replay everything from -r 0. Thanks for your guidance! Geoff -- This email, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify us by reply email or by telephone, delete this email and destroy any copies. Thank you.
