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RE: spam: Re: Moving files between folders in repo-browser; revision history lost?

From: Bob Archer <bob.archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:23:32 -0500

> Stefan-
>
> We decided to just merge the dev branch back to the original trunk, and it
> appears to have worked.
>
> However, I would like to make sure that I understand the correct process
> for
> what we botched earlier. So...
>
> - Given this situation: we want to move from a folder layout where all the
> different projects are under one trunk folder together, one branches
> folder
> together, etc. to a layout where each project has its own set of
> trunk/branches/tags folders:
>
> Is the correct process to:
>
> - open the Repo-browser; create a new "master" folder for each project
> - move, by dragging, each project's sub-folder from the original trunk
> folder to its new "master" folder
> - re-name the trunk folder to "trunk"
>
> And then do this for the branches and tags folders:
>
> - in the Repo-browser, create tags and branches folders under the new
> "master" folder
> - move the tags folders into the just created "tags" folder under the
> master
> - do the same for the branches folder
>
>
> Will this give us what we want-- a new folder structure with an unbroken
> revision history? Or am I totally misunderstanding again? :-)
>

That should work. Although I take a "slightly" different approach. I would copy say /repo/project1 to /repo/project1/trunk and then delete /repo/project1. But, I think the end result is basically the same since a "move" in subversion is pretty much a copy and a delete.

BOb

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