On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:16:03 +0200, Roland Philippsen
<roland.philippsen@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Let me illustrate. I want to change this kind of layout
> >
> >> so that it becomes:
> >
> >> svn/
> >> foo/
> >> trunk/
> >> branches/
> >> bar/
> >> trunk/
> >> branches/
> >
> > Shouldn't the following series of commands do the trick?
> >
> > svn mkdir http://server/svn/foo
> > svn move http://server/svn/trunk/foo http://server/svn/foo/trunk
> > svn move http://server/svn/branches/foo http://server/svn/foo/branches
>
>
> Yep, that seems to do the trick ... except that I chose an overly simple
> example :-)
>
> I didn't mention how projects are spread out, renaming histories, and
> stuff. Just an example:
> svn_1/
> trunk/
> npm/
>
> later became
> svn_1/
> trunk/
> nepumuk/
>
> which should now be fused with
> svn_2/
> trunk/
> sunflower/
>
> .... with svn_2 having undergone many temporary trees due to a cvs2svn for a
> subproject of sunflower. After loosing a few strands of hair over this I
> noticed it boiled down to the reverse structure I had chosen at the
> beginning, and that's what I based the example on.
>
> The workaround I described in a previous post (moving things in a working
> copy) is doing the trick for the current head revision, but if we ever need
> to retrieve older things it will be complicated to take the layout changes
> into account. I wanted to get this *right*, see?
>
> I'm almost at the point where I'll write a custom script to modify the dump
> files. That would be the cleanest solution. Does anyone have a dumpfile
> tweaking script (preferrably Python) they'd feel like sharing with me? I
> looked at the sources of svndumpfilter, but it seems like the effort needed
> for understanding that goes beyond the amount I'm currently willing to
> invest...
Take a look at http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fs_dumprestore.txt
- the format is actually quite simple.
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bd
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Received on Sat Jul 31 04:34:21 2004