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Re: Moving an existing Repository to a newly created repository

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:19:16 -0500

On 6/24/2011 5:06 PM, Geoff Hoffman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Tech Geek <techgeek12345_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:techgeek12345_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > You should be able to use regular old mv on the command line for
> this.
> So,
> svadmin create /var/lib/svn/Projects # Create new repo Projects
> mv /var/lib/svn/ProjectA A # Rename ProjectA to A
> and then?
> how do I move repository "A" under "Projects" repository?
>
>
>
> Actually, trick question -- I was about to say svn copy -- but you can't
> use svn copy between two different repositories, instead:
>
> You use the *svnadmin dump* command to generate the dump data, and
> *svnadmin load* to populate a new repository with it (see the section
> called “Migrating a Repository”
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.5>).

That is, if you really need to move the contents of one repository into
a different one instead of just changing the location and name of the
existing one in the filesystem. The goal here doesn't seem clear. If
you are trying to combine multiple repositories into one, you can't keep
the old revision numbers of more than one and you'll have to abandon all
checked out working copies and check them out again.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2011-06-25 00:19:51 CEST

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