On 24.01.2018 14:11, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: >> Andreas Krey wrote on Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:14 +0100: >>> svndumping, filtering and reloading may fix the file names for >>> all revisions, but I have no idea how the client sandboxes >>> will react to that. >> The term is "working copies", and if when changing the history one should >> 'svnadmin setuuid' the repository, which will cause all network >> operations from old working copies to error out up front with a UUID >> mismatch error message (as desired). > This is also when you rename the upstream Subversion hostname or reset > the URL for it altogether, so that old and broken working copies are > reported as completely absent. It helps prevent people from doing an > "svn switch" and expecting the histories to be consistent, and lets > them know that the old repository is unusaable: a new working copy > should be checked out.
Actually one cannot "svn switch" to a repository with a different UUID, so changing that should be enough. -- Brane
