replicate repository??

[TooTall]

ok this may sound weird but it is what i need to do and I can not figure out how to do it:

I need to copy a repository to another name thus having two repositories that are the same at the time of the copy. I would also like to have the versions stay the same and have all the previous versions avaiable for diff'ing and such.

Any way to go about that??

Thanks

[jclausius]

TooTall:

Unfortunately, there is not a practical way of achieving this right now.

One of the feature requests for the next version of Vault is a manner to archive / restore objects from a repository. That feature would accomplish your goal.

[TooTall]

Is there an impractical way?? I only need to do this once.

Or when is the next version due out??

Thanks

[jclausius]

Sorry, I mis-spoke about "next version"... This should read "future version".

Back to your question. There is an impractical way, but it is going to require a lot of legwork on your end. Basically, you would need to write a custom client or write an application which wraps around the command line client, which :

retrieves a repository's tree

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for each folder in the tree
{
   create a new folder in the other repository, corresponding to this folder (assuming no folder shares )
   for each file in folder
   {
      get the file @ version 1, and add it to folder ( assuming no file shares )
      for each version of the file
         get the version(s) ( 2..n ), and commit each one to the tree if they exist
   }
}

Sorry I don't have any better news than this. If anyone else has a different suggestion, please jump in.