RE: Migrating to svn

> I don't know if someone can help me, but I'm trying to migrate from
> another SCM to svn.
>
> I keep running into issues:
>
> The original SCM was, well, extremely large. massive. So we're
> running a tool to extract data in it to the svn dump format. Fine
> (the dump format looks fine enough) but I can't seem to get it to
> LOAD.
>
> Example:
>
> Dump branch A into svn-brancha.dump (content is in
> branches/branchA)
> Dump branch B into svn-branchb.dump (content is in
> branches/branchB)
>
> svnadmin load branch A : no problem.
>
> svnadmin load branch B : fails immediately, unable to create
> "branches"
>
> Seriously? svn load won't load a dump file that references files
> that already exist? Or am I misunderstanding?

It would help if you gave us the full command you were running and the exact error.

I think a load into an empty repository is a bit different than one into a repository with stuff in it. Also, when you specify the repo path to load into iirc you have to create the path first.

You are using the --parent-dir parameter right?

BOb

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Received on 2009-11-18 19:47:41 CET