On Oct 21, 2010, at 23:37, mfass wrote:
> I have two subversion servers. One is an open source repository not
> controlled by me, and the other is a closed source repository which is
> controlled by me. Both the open source and the closed source build together
> to make one set of software. The closed source is a firewalled server at my
> place of employment. Currently we are in need to rename the project for a
> launch announcement at an upcoming conference.
>
> Becasue of the sensitive nature of the announcement, we cannot make the
> changes to the open source (sourceforge) project because our hosting service
> will not temporarily restrict anonymous access to the source code to just
> commiter's.
>
> To workaround this, we decided that we will pull the source code from the
> sourceforge project, into our internal, closed source repository. We then
> want to make the changes, and once the announcement of the naming etc. has
> been done, we can merge back to our sourceforge project the naming changes
> that were made.
>
> I was thinking of doing it via svn copy from one project to the other, and
> then taking the diff and copying back as we need.
You cannot "svn copy" between repositories, only within a repository.
Subversion really isn't designed to do what you propose. I don't have a better suggestion for you. Maybe someone else does.
Received on 2010-10-22 07:30:10 CEST