How to change subversion working copy UUID?

Question

I've recently updated Subversion repositories from an old 1.2.3 version to 1.6.0 via svnadmin dump/load. The old repositories all used the same UUID (repositories were created using by copying a template repository). I've changed the UUID on a couple of the new repositories via svnadmin setuuid to be unique. I can't just relocate my existing working copies of those repositories because the UUIDs are different. I know about exporting the working copy and checking out from the new repository, but I was wondering whether there was a way to just change the UUID of the working copy in-place, like what svnadmin setuuid does for repositories.

Answer 1

You need to edit all the 'entries' files in your pulled repo. If the repo has a lot of directories, find + a sed script will make short work of the task.

Answer 2

Here is a command that does the trick:

sed -i 's/old-uuid/new-uuid/' $(find . -type f -name entries -print)

Replace old-uuid and new-uuid with the actual ids.

Answer 3

The section "Managing Repository UUIDs" in svn red-bean book may have the answer you are looking for.