2008/12/16 Daniel Jacobsen <daniel.jacob.jacobsen_at_gmail.com>:
>
> I have two SVN repositories that contain very similar file trees.
> However, they have been used independently for a long time so that
> many folders and files are unique to each tree, and many files exist
> in different revisions in each repository.
>
> How do I merge the two repositories together? I've tried the svnadmin
> dump and svnadmin load, but that does not work - the error is:
>
> svnadmin load /svn < dumpfile2
> <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
> svnadmin: File already exists: filesystem '/svn/db', transaction 'ip',
> path 'branches'
> * adding path : branches ...server1:
>
You can use --parent-dir option of svnadmin load command to load the
dump into a subdirectory of your repository. You should create that
subdirectory (empty) in your repository before running with that option.
See the book,
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.migrate
Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
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Received on 2008-12-25 04:36:48 CET