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AI-generatedDoes svnadmin hotcopy lock the source repository during the copy operation?
The goal is to move a small Subversion repository to a new server with little or no downtime by creating a hotcopy of the repository on the destination host and then updating working copies to point at the new URL using svn switch --relocate. The Subversion documentation does not explicitly state whether svnadmin hotcopy acquires an exclusive lock on the sou