What is happening?
We moved various projects from the development infrastructure
of the livingreviews project to a new server of the MPDL with the name
devtools.mpdl.mpg.de
. The list of projects which have been
relocated is available at
https://devtools.mpdl.mpg.de/projects.
We use newer versions of the sourcecode repository software
subversion
and the project management software
trac, but this should not create
any problem as all the functionality remains available.
At the moment the old URLs based on the server name
dev.livingreviews.org
are still functional. However, this
is temporary only. The old urls will stop working in a few weeks.
What I am required to do?
Trac URLs
For the trac project management software which is accessed by the
webbrowser, you just need to use the new URLs, update your bookmarks
and links on other web pages. You only need to update the server name
as the path on the server was not altered by the move of the projects:
https://dev.livingreviews.org/projects/<name>
becomes https://devtools.mpdl.mpg.de/projects/<name>
where <name>
indicates the project name.
Subversion repository URLs
For subversion checkouts you need to relocate the repository url. Again, you only need to change the server name, as the path of the repository did not change.
Using the svn command line application
If you use the svn command line application you first need to change into the directory where your checkout is located. Then execute:
svn switch --relocate https://dev.livingreviews.org/repos/<name> https://devtools.mpdl.mpg.de/repos/<name>
As before <name> is to be replaced by the project name. Please acknowledge the following rules:
- You need to relocate the base directory only, all sub-directories are updated as well.
- Always use the repository root URL (both, the old and the new one) in the relocate command even in case you checked out some sub-path of the repository.
- You can use
svn info
to get some information about your checkout. The output includes the repository root URL (the old URL before the relocation and the new afterwards).
Using TortoiseSVN
If you use TortoiseSVN please use the relocate command as shown in the
following two screenshots for the vlib
repository:
Please pay attention to the following rules:
- You need to relocate the base directory only, all sub-directories are updated as well.
- The old URL is taken from the checkout automatically. Hence you only
need to type in the new URL. It is identical to the old URL execpt for
the server name, i.e.
dev.livingreviews.org
becomesdevtools.mpdl.mpg.de
. - In case you checked out some sub-path of the repository, you need to repeat this sub-path in the new URL. This is different from the procedure when using the svn command line application.
Thanks to Erik for the screenshots and the tests on TortoiseSVN.