Moving an entire repository

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> I am brand new to Bazaar and I have a simple question.
> 
> I have created and initially populated a shared repository on my
> workstation, but before I start using it I would like to move it to it's
> permanent home on a server. Is there any problem with simply doing a
> file copy of the tree from one machine to another. I am concerned if
> there are any file system absolute paths stored in the repository metadata.

In general, copying it should be okay. It may store some referenced
branches by their absolute path (like doing 'bzr branch XXX'), but you
can pretty much always fix those later. There is no *committed* data
that cares about the absolute paths.

> 
> I want to do this move before using the repository in any way so that
> history will always start from the master.
> 
> If my idea is not safe, any suggestions on a good way of doing this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan Gossage
> 
> 

John
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