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Re: Copying from one repository to another, flattening the early part of the source repo's history in the target repo?

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:07 -0500

On 4/29/2010 1:06 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> I'm working on some Subversion-related software for propagating trunk
> checkins to any of dozens of target branches, based on trunk's checkin
> comments (that is, where the checkins need to subsequently go automatically is
> determined by the checkin comments in trunk, and those comments are
> prepared pretty consistently by a custom GUI; the GUI piece is already
> written and in production).
>
> I of course want it to work well when we deploy it - and the trunk
> we'll ultimately be running it against is rather huge.
>
> So to make it work well from the start, I need to test it well. To
> test it, I really want to copy from one SVN server's trunk to another
> SVN server's repository - flattening a significant part of the early
> history from the source trunk, and then having as-identical-as-practical
> checkin comments for the later history.

I don't understand the need to flatten the trunk. Fanning out from the
trunk to many branches should be straightforward enough, fhough.

> Is there already a way of setting up such a test branch? I've googled
> about it quite a bit and come up with things that are close (svnsync:
> way too much test data, svn merge: too few checkin comments unless I
> do them individually somehow), but not quite what I need. It's
> seeming like writing the program to prepare the test environment is
> nearly as complex as what I'm intending to test.
>
> Please note that although I've been an SVN admin in the past, I do not
> have administrative access to these SVN servers.

The only way you can modify existing history is with a svnadmin
dump/filter/load and you need admin access for that. Can you svnsync
the live repo to one you control, then dump from there to get a base for
your test?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-04-29 20:23:41 CEST

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