Re: Breaking up a monolothic repository

Am 10.09.2013 19:45, schrieb Thomas Harold:

> When we moved from a monolithic repository to per-client repositories a
> few years ago, we went ahead and:
>
> - Rebased the paths up one or two levels (old system was something like
> "monolithicrepo/[a-z]/[client directories]/[job directory]") so that the
> urls were now "clientrepo/[job directory]". That was a tricky thing to
> do and we had to 'sed' the output of the dump filter before importing it
> back.
>
> It broke a few things, such as svn:externals which were not
> relative-pathed, but was worth it in the long run so that our URLs got
> shorter.
>
> - Made sure that the new repos all had unique UUIDs.
>
> - Renumbered all of the resulting revisions as we loaded things back in.
> But we didn't have to deal with any bug tracking systems that referred
> to a specific revision. And having lower revision numbers was
> preferred, along with dropping revisions that referred to other projects.

I'm now facing the same problem. My users want the rebasing, but during
the dump/load instead of after the fact (apparently, it causes issues
with their environment when they need to go back to an earlier revision
to reproduce something). They also want to keep the empty revisions (for
references from the issue tracker).

I haven't tried it with svnadmin dump followed by svndumpfilter (I don't
think it has that capability).

I've tried svnrdump (from svn 1.7), it resulted in either a new
repository with the full path included (rdump/load all revs) or an
interesting failure mode with a missing node during a copy operation
when rdump -r <revision_after_path>:HEAD was used

I've also tried using svnsync, but that also results in the full path
included, no rebasing.

How did you do it? Also, am I missing something that has been included
in a current svn version?

Cheers,

Ulli

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