XP-Dev.com Documentation - Platform Migration
XP-Dev.com underwent a major upgrade on the 20th of September 2009. The upgrade brought along plenty of changes, especially to the way that projects interact with repositories.
Here are some common problems that most users faced during the migration.
Where are my repositories ? Have you deleted all my data ?
Nothing was deleted, so, don’t panic!
On the old platform, projects and repositories were two separate entities. On the new platform, each and every repository need to belong to a project.
To put it in “geek speak”, on the old platform, projects and repositories were siblings and on the new platform projects and repositories have a parent-child relationship (projects are parents of repositories & repositories are children of projects)
A new “project” was created for each and every repository on the old system. These projects were named XP-Dev.com migration: <repository name>.
If you had an existing project from the old system, it would have been migrated across seamlessly along with all bugs, stories, forums, wikis, etc.
In case you want your project linked to your repository from the old system, you can move the repository to another project by editing it from the Source Control tab of the project.
There is a blog post that explains how to do this along with some detailed explanation on what is going on:
http://www.xp-dev.com/blog/872/and-on-it-goes—-yet-another-platform-upgrade
I can’t access my repository! Have you deleted all my data ?
If you’re a Paid account holder, please just raise a raise a support ticket and we’ll will be in touch with you.
If you’re a Free account holder, then the problem might be down to the fact that you’re trying to access your repository using SSL, i.e. your Subversion URL will start with HTTPS://.
Removal of SSL from Free account holders was announced back in April 2009:
http://www.xp-dev.com/blog/451/infrastructure-and-account-upgrades
It was only enforced after the upgrade.
To switch to a non-SSL connection, you will need to run perform a Subversion Relocate on your checkout directories. Some reference that might be of help:
- Command line Subversion client: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.switch.html
- TortoiseSVN Subversion client: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-relocate.html
- Do have a look at the forum topic that has a number of solutions for a couple of Subversion clients and IDEs
You can always upgrade to a paid account to keep your Secure SSL connection.
What in the world happened ? Why wasn’t I informed of this upgrade ?!!
All upgrades are announced over the at the XP-Dev.com’s blog
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