On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:54, Mattius McLaughlin wrote: > > > On 03/01/12 19:40, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Mar 1, 2012, at 15:46, Mattius McLaughlin wrote: >> >>> I'd like to break each of those projects into separate repositories. Given >>> the number of designers we have, it's a bit unreasonable to expect everyone >>> to recreate every workspace so I'd like to keep all URLs the same. >> There's no choice; when you split the big repository into smaller >> repositories, each repository must be given its own UUID (Universally Unique >> IDentifier), different from the big repository's UUID. A working copy is >> matched to a particular repository by UUID. Once you have new repositories, >> you must check out new working copies. No exceptions. >> >> > I know it's not necessarily best practice, but one could get around this with > a svnadmin setuuid $old-uuid, no?
Unless the new repository's history is identical to the old repository, it must not have the same UUID; doing so would confuse clients and existing working copies.
