How to migrate all URLs in svn:externals properties across a repository?

Question

We are in the process of moving our SVN repositories from one machine to another one, and with it will come a new domain name for the new repo. The problem is, that within

Answer 1

You could:

a) check out the old revision, and change your hosts-file to point the old name to the new address, then svn update. In case the URL-path also changed... well then you might as well:

b) take the time to write a script that find the properties in the current (old revision-) working copy and changes the URLs there, without committing them. OR:

c) make a note of the revision(-s) where you checked in the new property values, check out the old version, and simply do a merge those revisions (-that only affect the properties) into your working copy.

d) or, possibly, use svndump to dump the repository data, string-replace the URL in the dump, then restore it.. I would not give you any guarantee that that even works ;-)