RE: Saving history when converting multiple repos into one?

Matt,

Look into svnadmin load --parent-dir.

The basic flow goes like this:

1. Create new repository
    svnadmin create new-repos

2. Make a directory to hold each old repository
    svn mkdir file://new-repos/oldrepo1dir
    svn mkdir file://new-repos/oldrepo2dir
    svn mkdir file://new-repos/oldrepo3dir

3. Dump old repositories.
    svnadmin dump oldrepo1 > oldrepo1.load
    svnadmin dump oldrepo2 > oldrepo2.load
    svnadmin dump oldrepo3 > oldrepo3.load

4. Load old repositories using --parent-dir arg
    svnadmin load new-repos --parent-dir oldrepo1dir < oldrepo1.load
    svnadmin load new-repos --parent-dir oldrepo2dir < oldrepo2.load
    svnadmin load new-repos --parent-dir oldrepo3dir < oldrepo3.load

This will preserve your history into the new repository.

HTH,

Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt England [mailto:mengland@mengland.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:40 PM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Cc: mengland@mengland.net
Subject: Saving history when converting multiple repos into one?

My software development group is attempting to convert multiple Subversion
repositories into a larger, single repository. We would make each original
stand-alone repo as a subdirectory into the larger repository.

Our question: how can we do this and still make the file-revision history
from the original repositories available in the new repository?

-Matt

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