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Re: Dump repos to project in another repos

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:23:33 -0600

On Feb 8, 2008, at 10:42, Charles E. James wrote:

> I was asked to move a repository from one location in svn to a
> project level in another repository:
>
> /Repos to move: /svn/dsas
> Location to move it to: /svn/path/to/new/repos/dsas
>
> I tired to use this command:
>
> svnadmin dump /svn/dsas | \
> svnadmin load /svn/path/to/new/repos/as/pctrl-sandbox//
>
> and what it did was put the entire repos structure in the sandbox
> and not in the dsas project directory which I assumed would happen
> since I named the dsas directory. When I attempted to do:
>
> /svnadmin dump /svn/dsas | \
> svnadmin load /svn/path/to/new/repos/as/pctrl-sandbox/dsas/
>
> in order to get it all inside the dsas directory I got:
>
> /svnadmin: Can't open file '///svn/path/to/new/repos///as/pctrl-
> sandbox/dsas/format': No such file or directory
> svnadmin: Can't write to stream: Broken pipe
> /
> Can someone be so kind as to direct me to the proper answer to this
> problem?

Hi Charles. I believe you want:

svnadmin dump /svn/dsas | \
svnadmin load /svn/path/to/new/repos \
--parent-dir /path/within/new/repos

See "svnadmin help load".

I assume you've been doing your existing tests on copies of your
target repository, so that you can do the above on a version of the
repository that does not already contain your previous import
attempts. If that's not the case, then it sounds like you have
already imported the data into the target repository, albeit perhaps
not to the exact place you wanted, and if so, then you can simply
"svn mv" it within the new repository so it's where you want it. This
will take up virtually no additional space in the repository, whereas
if you were to load the old repository in again, it would take up
that much space in the new repository again.

You may want to read more of the Subversion book if you need to do
more Subversion administration tasks; it's quite comprehensive:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/index.html

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