Can't commit files "from different repository"

I corrupted my SVN repository, at some point, so I reverted to one I
thought was the most up-to-date (this was a few months ago). Since
then, I have been working on some of the projects within it, but
haven't done too much actual work.

Yesterday, however, I found a backup of the old SVN which I had
forgotten about and it holds some key work which I had done on one of
my projects which I had lost in the corruption and didn't restore.

Now I am trying to extract the useful parts of this one project from
the old backup and merge them into a copy from the repository I am
using, currently. However, I can't figure out how to re-parent the
files without manually going through and copying them over (there are
tons since there are some bundles, etc, so doing so would take a long
time).

I tried to use svn merge and give the range from where the source
streams diverged which, although it seemed to be working, it fails on
commit with the error:

svn: Source url '/path/to/some_file.h' is from different repository

I guess it was expecting not to have to copy the whole file but that is
what I need. svn switch doesn't seem to do what I want, either.

So, the short question is: Is there any way to merge across
repositories?

Thanks,
Jeff.

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Received on Mon Feb 7 08:15:59 2005