Comment 5 for bug 334028

Hi Brad,

It would indeed be nice to have --relocate be an alias for --force, for
people who are used to Subversion such as yourself. I'll leave this bug
open as wishlist for that.

  affects bzr
  status triaged
  importance wishlist
  summary "--relocate alias for bzr switch --force"

  affects bzr-svn
  status invalid

Cheers,

Jelmer

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:40 +0000, Brad Burch wrote:
> Well, when I first issued "bzr switch", it failed outright with:
>
> bzr: ERROR: Unable to connect to target of bound branch
> BzrBranch6('/PATH_TO_BZR_CHECKOUT/') => svn://server1/product/trunk: Not a
> branch: "svn://server1/product/trunk/".
>
> I attribute the error to the fact that the old svn server had been taken
> offline so no new commits crept in. The command may likely have completed
> properly if the old svn server was still online, however I didn't have that
> luxury.
>
> I suppose I was blinded by my experience with svn, expecting a --relocate
> switch. Testing the same scenario again today, I see that --force appears
> to work just as --relocate would with svn. This is no bug, just ignorance.
> Still, hopefully some poor soul with this same problem in the future will
> find this report and not start on the wrong foot as I did.
>
> Thanks,
> --Brad Burch
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Wesley J. Landaker
> <email address hidden>wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I started making a reproduction recipe, since I thought I'd seen
> > something like this in the past. However, this worked with no trouble
> > when I tried in with bzr-svn 0.5dev:
> >
> > mkdir /tmp/bzr-bug-334028
> > cd /tmp/bzr-bug-334028
> > svnadmin create svn-repo1
> > bzr co svn-repo1 bzr-co
> > cd bzr-co
> > touch A
> > bzr add A
> > bzr commit -m "Adding file A"
> > cd ..
> > svnadmin create svn-repo2
> > svnadmin dump svn-repo1 | svnadmin load --force-uuid svn-repo2
> > cd bzr-co
> > bzr switch ../svn-repo2
> >
> > Brad, you might try running this example and see if it fails for you --
> > perhaps this was a bug in an older version of bzr-svn?
> >
> > --
> > svn switch --relocate
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334028
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
> > Status in Subversion branch support for Bazaar: New
> >
> > Bug description:
> > I ran into a dead-end trying to get my existing bzr checkout to point to
> > our new svn server. There is probably a simple way to do this without
> > botching it like I did, but hours of searching yielded no help. I ended up
> > creating a new checkout and manually merging in my changes, but hopefully
> > this report might be of help to others.
> >
> > I've been working on a somewhat long-running project not being committed to
> > svn. These steps have been working great until we moved our svn server.
> > Here are the steps:
> > 1. existing svn server with history
> > 2. bzr checkout svn://server1/product/trunk trunk
> > 3. bzr branch trunk MyProject
> > 4. make changes in MyProject and bzr commit
> > 5. bzr update trunk
> > 6. bzr merge trunk MyProject
> >
> > Then the server was moved to a new server. With svn a simple "svn switch
> > --relocate svn://server2/product/trunk" does the trick since the repository
> > was loaded with the same UUID. Using "bzr switch" does not work. After I
> > started from scratch, I did find a way to relocate the server that seems to
> > work, though I'm not certain if there could be ramifications.
> >
> > Do not use bzr to do any of this, simple edit these files:
> > 1. replace the old repository path in subversion.conf with the new svn
> > server path
> > 2. replace the old repository path in .bzr\branches\branch.conf with the
> > new svn server path
> >
> > After that, "bzr update" seems to work perfectly. Again, I ran a test and
> > this seems to work, but there might be more files that need tweaking. It
> > might be nice to have a bzr-svn command to do this, or better yet add "bzr
> > switch --relocate" like svn.
> >
>
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