No; if you want the project to move to its own separate repository,
then you must dump/filter/load like Hari explained in another email
in this thread.
On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:25, Jon Froehlich wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for your response. Would this work if each of the projects in
> our file system have been created with svnadmin create <project name>.
> That is to say, I want to make
> "sub-directory-that's-becoming-a-project" into a:
>
> svnadmin create sub-directory-that's-becoming-a-project
>
> but maintain its history somehow.
>
> Jon
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM, David Weintraub
> <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why not simply do a "svn mv" to move this subdirectory to the
>> directory where projects are stored. For example:
>>
>> http://system/svn/projects/big_project/trunk/sub-directory-that's-
>> becoming-a-project
>>
>> $ svn mkdir http://system/svn/projects/new-project/trunk
>> $ svn mv http://system/svn/projects/big_project/trunk/sub-
>> directory-that's-becoming-a-project
>> svn mv http://system/svn/projects/new-project/trunk
>>
>> Something like that. You get the idea. Then, you can create an
>> svn:external to where this sub-directory use to live.
>>
>> This way, you keep the entire history.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jon Froehlich
>> <jonfroehlich_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This might sound like a weird request but here's what I need to
>>> do: I
>>> have a SVN project that has been ongoing for about a year (so it has
>>> significant change history). A subdirectory within that project has
>>> now evolved into a larger project on its own. I would like to
>>> pull out
>>> this subdirectory and make a new SVN project around it and,
>>> hopefully,
>>> maintain its original change history.
>>>
>>> I know that I could simply create a new SVN project and commit the
>>> most recent version of this directory but then I would lose its
>>> change
>>> history. This is what I'll do if I don't hear of other
>>> recommendations.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
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>>> Computer Science and Engineering
>>> University of Washington
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>>
>
>
>
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> University of Washington
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