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synchronization from another repository.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id426155"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svnsync initialize DEST_URL SOURCE_URL</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id426167"></a><h2>Description</h2><p><span class="command"><strong>svnsync initialize</strong></span> verifies that a
repository meets the requirements of a new mirror
repository—that it has no previous existing version
history, and that it allows revision property
modifications—and records the initial administrative
information which associates the mirror repository with
the source repository. This is the first
<span class="command"><strong>svnsync</strong></span> operation you run on a would-be
mirror repository.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id426192"></a><h2>Alternate Names</h2><p>init</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id426202"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--non-interactive
--no-auth-cache
--username NAME
--password PASS
--config-dir DIR
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id426215"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Fail to initialize a mirror repository due to
inability to modify revision properties:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svnsync initialize file:///var/svn/repos-mirror http://svn.example.com/repos
svnsync: Repository has not been enabled to accept revision propchanges;
ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook
$
</pre><p>Initialize a repository as a mirror, having already
created a pre-revprop-change hook which permits all revision
property changes:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svnsync initialize file:///var/svn/repos-mirror http://svn.example.com/repos
Copied properties for revision 0.
$
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