On 8/15/05, Brass Tilde <brasstilde@insightbb.com> wrote:
> I apologize if this is in the book; none of my searches revealed anything in the book or in the list archive.
>
> Is there any way to have Subversion copy multiple directories within the repository into a single directory using a single svn
> command invocation?
>
> Here's an example of what I want to do. Setting aside for the moment just why it is so, consider a repository set up something like
> this:
>
> /branches
> /tags
> /trunk
> /app1
> /app2
> /...
> /appN
>
>
> What I want the repo to look like after I'm done is something like this:
>
> /branches
> /Release 1.0
> /app2
> /app5
> /app23
> /app46
> /tags
> /trunk
> /app1
> /app2
> /...
> /appN
>
> Now, I realize that with a checkout of the "/Release 1.0" branch directory, I can "svn copy" each of those individual apps into the
> working copy, then commit that as one revision (at least, I presume so from reading the docs; I haven't actually tried it).
> However, that uses up a fair bit of disk space and time with these apps.
>
> It would be nice if I could do something like:
>
> svn copy source1 source2 source3 target
>
> or
>
> svn copy source1 target source2 target ....
>
> If not in the SVN CLI itself, is there another client that might do this, or a set of API calls that I might use from Perl or Ruby
> or something?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
> ..."Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." -Isaac Asimov
>
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I haven't actually used this myself but maybe you could use rsvn
<https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/rsvn/trac.cgi/wiki>.
/Johan
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Received on Mon Aug 15 22:04:36 2005