Re: Can I load a cvs2svn dump file into SVN repo via TortoiseSVN?

On 28.01.2015 19:44, John Fierke wrote:
> I am migrating a CVS project on a unix server to our company's
> centrally controlled apache subversion server. It is critical that I
> preserve all version history.
>
> I have successfully tested creating the cvs2svn dump file and loading
> it to a local SVN repo using "svnadmin load". The administrator has
> created a repository for me and says he's granted me full access to
> it. I'm not sure how, if at all, I can load the dumpfile remotely
> even through the TortoiseSVN interface. Do I need him to actually
> run svnadmin load himself at a command line?

Running svnadmin load is the fastest way. But if you can not do that,
there's another (much slower) way: svnsync
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svnsync.html

But for svnsync to work, the remote repository must be completely empty
and have the pre-revprop-change hook activated to allow changes to revprops:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.reposhooks.pre-revprop-change.html

if that's done, you can 'upload' your dump file to the remote
repository. But first you have to create a local repository and import
the dump there. Then:

$ svnsync init --username YOURUSERNAME https://remote.com/svn
file:///path/to/localrepos
$ svnsync sync --username YOURUSERNAME https://remote.com/svn

wait...

Stefan

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