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RE: Import history from a second repository

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:56:22 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> Sent: dinsdag 1 april 2014 09:43
> To: Ryan Schmidt
> Cc: Subversion Users
> Subject: Re: Import history from a second repository
>
> Ryan Schmidt wrote on Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 19:51:17 -0500:
> > I’ve been developing a new feature of a public project in secret, in
> > my own private Subversion repository. It’s almost entirely new code in
> > a new directory. There’s only one file that’s based on an existing
> > file, and it’s been heavily rewritten.
> >
>
> You might be interested in reading on how Mike Pilato prefixed a few
> thousand revisions to an existing repository:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/README
>
> You might be able to do something similar by dumping your repository,
> tweaking the paths, and using 'svnrdump load'. (Not sure how that
> handles svn:date --- whether it tries to set them, and what to; in your
> case you'd want it to let the server set it to the current time, as it
> does for ordinary commits.)

It tries to set svn:date and svn:author...
(Note that I just added a function to support dropping these properties for 1.9... See other mail)

        Bert
Received on 2014-04-01 11:57:04 CEST

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