Re: migration to a different subversion repository

On Jul 5, 2008, at 15:04, Jack Bates wrote:

> I started a project in one repository
> (http://svn.freegeek.org/svn/mediawiki-webdav) and now want to move it
> to a different repository
> (http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/WebDAV)
>
> Ideally I'd preserve history and Subversion properties. From what I've
> read however,
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-
> control.subversion.user/64518) this requires the svnadmin command,
> which must be run on the server hosting the repository - I don't
> think it will work remotely on a Subversion URL. I don't have this
> kind of access.

Then you cannot do this, sorry.

> As far as I know, my only other option is to "svn export" from the
> first
> repository and "svn import" to the second.

That will not preserve history or Subversion properties.

> Is there a better way to
> migrate a project from one subversion repository to another?

Not that I can think of.

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Received on 2008-07-06 01:27:11 CEST