[svk-users] Move svk repo

[Martin Kalany]

Hi Alex,

thanks a lot for that fast and cometent answer!

Greetings
Martin

Alexander Dahl schrieb:
> Hi Martin, 
>
>   
>> I'm working with svk and I really like it. However, when I installed svk
>> and created the local copy of my svn repo I missed to place all that
>> somewhere else than to C:\. Now some malware has infected my computer
>> and I need to format C and reinstall windows. Can I move the svk repo
>> (which I think is the path provided by svk depomap?)  to somewhere else,
>> and reinstall svk on the new windows? I do not have access to the
>> original svn repo for the next few weeks, so I'd be glad if there's a
>> way to do this.
>>     
>
> You already had the right idea: `svk depotmap` ;-)
>
> First see which depots you have defined and running with 
>
>     svk depotmap --list
>
> You'll probably see your // depot listed in the Depot column and in
> which path it is stored in the second column. Just backup this whole
> path! After that reinstall your system and svk. You can now copy back
> your backup to any place you like, this doesn't need to be the old path.
> You "reconnect" your depot then with
>
>     svk depotmap // D:\path\to\new\copy\of\depot
>
> This works with other depots than // as well. 
>
> AFAIR the svk documentation says you should initialize a default depot
> after installing svk with `svk depotmap --init`. Don't do this in your
> case, just reconnecting the new copy of your old repo should be
> sufficient.
>
> HTH & greets
> Alex
>
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