SVN - Change working copy to point at new svn path

Question

I've got a SVN Repository that has moved to a new address/path. However, I've got a working copy with uncommitted source code still pointing to the old (now invalid) repository path. How do you change a working copy to point at a new repository?

Solution 1

svn switch --relocate is deprecated as of version 1.7 of subversion. Use the svn relocate command instead.

It takes either FROM-PREFIX TO-PREFIX [PATH...] or TO-URL as arguments.

See

svn help relocate

for more information.

Solution 2

Use the svn switch command with the --relocate command line option.

Solution 3

Using TortoiseSVN

1. Right click on working copy and select 'SVN Switch...'
2. On 'Switch to branch' form Select new SVN path

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Using Command

1. Open console
2. Navigate to the working copy cd [working copy path]
3. Write the command svn relocate [new url]

Solution 4

To be more precise

svn switch --relocate [complete url of the old repo] [complete url of the new repo] 

For example:

svn switch --relocate  http://svn.repo.com:9880/website/branches  http://svnrepo.com/web/branches 

Solution 5

Using TortoiseSVN tortoisesvn docs

1. Go to the working copy's root folder
2. Right Click, Click TortoiseSVN Submenu, Click Relocate.
3. Enter the new path

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Comments

[quano]

Thanks. This is what I used: svn switch --relocate file:///Users/user/old_repository/project/trunk file:///Users/user/new_repository/project/trunk

[zck]

This is applicable only if using TortoiseSVN, which the poster didn't indicate he or she is using.

[Ahmed Abdallah]

Hi @zck please note that I wrote 2 solution in 1 answer first TortoiseSVN and the second is Command this command is deprecated for subversion in general you can review this page svn relocate/svn Subcommands

[zck]

Well, your answer was edited after I commented to include a commandline way of doing it. That commandline answer was already posted in June, so there's no need to repeat it.

[Ahmed Abdallah]

No, I post the answer in its current words my edit just for improve formatting; and I think the command I wrote is more clear than the one was wrote in June

[Spear]

Does not fix the URLs in svn:externals. Any idea how to do that ?

[Gerard ONeill]

The TortoiseSVN GUI way requires a click on 'relocate', and not switch. Which makes sense given the command line.. Not sure what switch would do -- it seemed to be trying to access the old URL and the new URL, something I didn't want it to do.