svnsync initialize
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## Name

svnsync initialize — Initialize a mirror repository for synchronization from the source repository.

## Synopsis

    svnsync initialize MIRROR_URL SOURCE_URL

## Description

svnsync initialize 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 that associates the mirror repository with the source repository. This is the first svnsync operation you run on a would-be mirror repository.

## Alternate name

init

## Options

    --config-dir DIR
    --no-auth-cache
    --non-interactive
    --quiet (-q)
    --source-password ARG
    --source-username ARG
    --sync-password ARG
    --sync-username ARG

## Examples

Fail to initialize a mirror repository due to inability to modify revision properties:

    $ 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
    $

Initialize a repository as a mirror, having already created a `pre-revprop-change` hook that permits all revision property changes:

    $ svnsync initialize file:///var/svn/repos-mirror http://svn.example.com/repos
    Copied properties for revision 0.
    $

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