Re: Merging two projects in two different repos

On Apr 28, 2011, at 05:27, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 28 April 2011, List Man wrote:
>> I want to take one project from one repo and put it in a directory under
>> another repo. Is it possible to keep the history of said project?
>
> No, not through the client interface, which is what you use for everyday work.
>
> If you have direct access to the repository, you could use e.g. the dumpfilter
> tool to change history retrospectively.

That is to say, you can "svnadmin dump" the repo that contains the project now, "svndumpfilter" the dumpfile to extract only that project, and then "svnadmin load" it into the new repository. If you don't have access to the old repository, you can "svnsync" the old repository to a new empty repository on your machine, then "svnadmin dump" that.

Loading the project into the new repository will probably destroy your ability to use dates as revisions in the new repository, because revisions will probably no longer be chronological. To work around that, you can dump the new repository too, and use svndumptool to merge the two dumpfiles with revisions interleaved in chronological order. This will renumber your old revisions though, and everyone will have to check out new working copies of the new repository, and you may not like either of those consequences either.
Received on 2011-04-28 13:44:51 CEST