[svk-users] svn mirror revision numbers differ

[Jesse Vincent]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Andrew Sasak wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2008 10:36 AM, Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Andrew Sasak wrote:
>>
>>> I have a mirror of a svn repo and the revision numbers differ. I
>>> couldn't find anything about this in the faq or archives. Any idea
>>> what could cause this? Is there anyway I could blow away my mirror
>>> back to a certain revision and resync as opposed to remirroring from
>>> scratch?
>>
>> SVK tracks local and remote revision numbers separately. Because it's
>> not simply a tool for making a copy of a remote repository but a
>> system for mirroring one or more repositories and making local  
>> changes
>> and branches, there's no way that the revision numbers can be  
>> identical.
>
> In my case I don't think this is true. The mirror is intended to be a
> "true" mirror of the SVN repository,

It's still true. svk records certain metadata as commits. Note that  
svk contains a tool called 'pullyu' which can reconstitute a copy of  
the original mirrored repository from an svk mirror of the same.