[svk-devel] misutilization

[Alexandru Popescu]

On 1/14/07, Andrew Ruder <andy at aeruder.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:55:04AM +0200, Alexandru Popescu wrote:
> > 1/ mirrored a remote SVN repository (worked well)
> > 2/ created a local copy (worked well)
> > 3/ figured out I have mirrored a wrong path (from here it starts)
> > 4/ removed the local copy using an SVN tool (TortoiseSVN)
> > 5/ removed the mirrored part using an SVN tool (Tortoise SVN)
> >
> > Now if I try to re-mirror I am getting the following message:
> >
> > svk mirror http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/ /pub/groovy/trunk
> > /pub/groovy/trunk is not a mirrored path.
> >
> > (the path was the wrong one that I deleted with the SVN tool)
> >
> > But what is worrying me even more is that the following command gives
> > me the same result:
> >
> > svk mirror http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/ /pub/gruvy/trunk
> > /pub/groovy/trunk is not a mirrored path.
> >
> > So I am getting the impression I might have screwed it.
> >
> > Any help is highly appreciated.
> >
> > ./alex
>
> Alex,
>
> Basically any dealing with mirrored paths with a non-svk tool (i.e. svn)
> is going to cause issues due to some internal properties that svk uses.
> But as svk keeps a lot of its metadata on various properties on
> files/dirs in the svn repos, you can usually fix it up manually with not
> too much effort.
>
> I would imagine for fixing up what you did, you'd want to do a
>
> svk propedit svm:mirror /pub/ (or whatever depot you are using)
>
> And remove the appropriate line. (It should have a list of mirrors)
>
> Hope that helps,
> Andy
>

I figured this out right after reading your explanations on the other
thread and posted it back here. But it looks like mine haven't arrived
in time :-).

thanksa again,

./alex
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