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RE: Moving a repo into another?

From: Dale Hirt <dale_at_sbcltd.com>
Date: 2003-05-21 23:08:42 CEST

Paul,

Why move into a new repository at all? Subversion is designed to allow for
directories to be moved around without losing change history. Why not
simply rearrange your repos using svn move, and then add your two new
projects into the svn repos?

Dale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul L Lussier [mailto:pll@lanminds.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 2:02 PM
> To: Ben Collins-Sussman
> Cc: pll@lanminds.com; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Moving a repo into another?
>
>
> In a message dated: 21 May 2003 14:53:59 CDT
> Ben Collins-Sussman said:
>
> >... it's not clear to me, though, how you would load *into*
> a specific
> >directory in the new repository.
>
> projectA is currently it's own repository. It's isolated.
>
> I need to create a new repository with 2 new projects which are each
> related to each other *and* to projectA. Basically, I want to move
> 'projectA' out of it's isolation into a repository with family
> members so it's not lonely :) projectA, projectB, and projectC are
> all inter-related, and as such, going forward, changesets will
> include files in all three trees.
>
> What I seem to need to do is:
>
> svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/projects
> svnadmin dump /usr/local/svn/projectA | \
> svnadmin load /usr/local/svn/projects
> svn create file:///usr/local/svn/projects/projectA
>
> Then 'svn mv' everything from the load under the projectA parent
> directory. Does that make sense?
>
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> Seeya,
> Paul
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