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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by gangadhar jannu <ga...@gmail.com> on 2015/02/01 13:26:26 UTC

copy multiple folders from one repository to another repository at server using subversion

Hi all,
I've been struggling with this issue for the past two weeks.

I've created a repository named as *allProj *at server. 
The structure of *allProj* is as follows:
allProj

   - Projects
      - projectA
      - projectB
      - projectC
      - projectD
      - projectE
   
Now I want to create another repository *reqProj *at the same server which 
includes *multiple projects *from *allProj *along with access controls and 
revision history.
Expected *reqProj* structure is:
reqProj

   - projectB
   - projectD
   - projectE

I've searched a lot on this topic but still I'm unable to find solution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
------------------------------
software details:
subversion version is 1.4
server OS is cenOS 6.4

Re: copy multiple folders from one repository to another repository at server using subversion

Posted by Alfred von Campe <al...@von-campe.com>.
On Feb 2, 2015, at 13:09, gangadhar jannu <ga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there any other alternatives rather than upgrading subversion...? 

Probably not.  Version 1.4 is old, actually ancient and if there was a bug in it that causes your issue, it will never be fixed.  There have been so many improvements in 1.5.X, 1.6.X, 1.7.X, and 1.8.X that you really, really should upgrade.  Even if you only go to 1.7.X which is what is supported in CentOS 6 you will get much better results, but if you are going to upgrade anyway, find an external repo that is hosting 1.8.X for CentOS 6.X and upgrade all the way to 1.8.11.

Alfred

Re: copy multiple folders from one repository to another repository at server using subversion

Posted by gangadhar jannu <ga...@gmail.com>.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
Is there any other alternatives rather than upgrading subversion...?

Re: copy multiple folders from one repository to another repository at server using subversion

Posted by Eric Johnson <er...@tibco.com>.
As a previous response suggested, upgrade your Subversion first, and then
try the dump/filter/load.

Eric.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:56 AM, gangadhar jannu <ga...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your detailed explanation.
>
> I've already tried what you suggested but something went wrong in that
> process.
>
> The actual scenario is:
> I have created 'allProj' repository and it is operating since 2013.
> *allProj *contains 120 folders. Out of 120 projects currently 20 projects
> are required.
> So I'm trying to create another repository 'reqProj' which contains those
> 20 projects out of 120 projects.
>
> I've tried *dump -> filter -> load *method already.
> So I'm able to load only 18 projects Out of 20 projects (2 projects were
> missing even though I tried to load all 20 projects dump).
>
> What exactly I tried is:
> *dump: *svnadmin dump file:///var/lib/svn/allProj > allProj.dump
> cat allProj.dump | svndumpfilter include Projects/projectB
> Projects/projectD Projects/projectE > reqProj.dump
> svnadmin create file:///var/lib/svn/reqProj
> svnadmin load fil:///var/lib/svn/reqProj < reqProj.dump
>
> Everything it is showing is fine but still I'm not gettting all the
> folders. Out of 20 projects I'm getting 18 projects.
>
> Is there any alternative method or am I doing wrong ...?
>
> I've searched a lot on this topic and I found nothing on "how to move
> multiple folders from one repository to another repository"
>

Re: copy multiple folders from one repository to another repository at server using subversion

Posted by gangadhar jannu <ga...@gmail.com>.
Hi,

Thanks for your detailed explanation.

I've already tried what you suggested but something went wrong in that 
process.

The actual scenario is:
I have created 'allProj' repository and it is operating since 2013.
*allProj *contains 120 folders. Out of 120 projects currently 20 projects 
are required.
So I'm trying to create another repository 'reqProj' which contains those 
20 projects out of 120 projects.

I've tried *dump -> filter -> load *method already.
So I'm able to load only 18 projects Out of 20 projects (2 projects were 
missing even though I tried to load all 20 projects dump).

What exactly I tried is:
*dump: *svnadmin dump file:///var/lib/svn/allProj > allProj.dump
cat allProj.dump | svndumpfilter include Projects/projectB 
Projects/projectD Projects/projectE > reqProj.dump
svnadmin create file:///var/lib/svn/reqProj
svnadmin load fil:///var/lib/svn/reqProj < reqProj.dump

Everything it is showing is fine but still I'm not gettting all the 
folders. Out of 20 projects I'm getting 18 projects.

Is there any alternative method or am I doing wrong ...?

I've searched a lot on this topic and I found nothing on "how to move 
multiple folders from one repository to another repository"

Re: copy multiple folders from one repository to another repository at server using subversion

Posted by Pavel Lyalyakin <pa...@visualsvn.com>.
Hello,

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ry...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> You can use "svnadmin dump" to dump parts of the allProj repository, then use "svnadmin load" to load them into the reqProj repository.

Roughly speaking, `svnadmin dump` itself can't take a dump of a single
project in a repository. With `svnadmin dump` you can specify revision
range to dump, but not paths to dump[1].

Using `svnadmin dump` you can generate a dump of the whole repository
and then use `svndumpfilter` tool[2] to filter out everything except
projectB, projectD and projectE, then load the filtered dump to a new
clean repository using `svnadmin load`. The process is described in
SVNBook | Filtering Repository History[3]. Moveover, official
Subversion FAQ has an entry about this task[4]. I can also advise
reading this post at StackOverflow[5].

[1]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.dump.html
[2]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svndumpfilter.html
[3]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.filtering
[4]: http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal
[5]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11598608/761095

--
With best regards,
Pavel Lyalyakin
VisualSVN Team

Re: copy multiple folders from one repository to another repository at server using subversion

Posted by Ryan Schmidt <ry...@macports.org>.
On Feb 1, 2015, at 6:26 AM, gangadhar jannu wrote:

> I've been struggling with this issue for the past two weeks.
> 
> I've created a repository named as allProj at server. 
> The structure of allProj is as follows:
> allProj
> 	• Projects
> 		• projectA
> 		• projectB
> 		• projectC
> 		• projectD
> 		• projectE
> Now I want to create another repository reqProj at the same server which includes multiple projects from allProj along with access controls and revision history.
> Expected reqProj structure is:
> reqProj
> 	• projectB
> 	• projectD
> 	• projectE
> I've searched a lot on this topic but still I'm unable to find solution.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can use "svnadmin dump" to dump parts of the allProj repository, then use "svnadmin load" to load them into the reqProj repository.

> software details:
> subversion version is 1.4
> server OS is cenOS 6.4

Subversion 1.4 is obsolete and unsupported. Please upgrade to the latest version of Subversion 1.8.