Load dumped repos into a certain URL

["Ronny T. Lampert" <te...@uni.de>]

Hi,

consider the following:
You committed to a repos, only to learn later you forgot to make all the 
important directories for branches, tags and trunk (don't laugh) - or 
anything else (or because you though you won't need them).

So the repos-tree looks like:

/
  xyz.awk
  configure
  Makefile.in
  [...]


you would like to take the existing repos, dump it and load it into an URL
( file:///repos/trunk/proj ), not into the plain repos resembling the same 
structure again, so it later looks like:

/
  trunk/
   proj/
    xyz.awk
    configure
    [...]

  branches/

you get the idea. Unfortunately, this won't work, as a "svnadmin load" only 
works on PATHs, not URLs (why?).

svn mv is not really working, too, because I lose the history, when I only 
checkout trunk/proj , because it seems the old revisions' history is not 
properly attached (which makes sense, of course).

Is there ANY possibility do the above described? I found nothing when 
searching around.

Thanks & cheers.


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Re: Load dumped repos into a certain URL

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Ronny T. Lampert wrote:

>> you would like to take the existing repos, dump it and load it into 
>> an URL
>> ( file:///repos/trunk/proj ), not into the plain repos resembling the 
>> same structure again, so it later looks like:
> > [...]
>> Is there ANY possibility do the above described? I found nothing when 
>> searching around.
>
> Please kill me.
> svnadmin load --parent-dir /trunk/proj works fine. How could I 
> overlook that option.
>

There's also nothing wrong with 'svn mv'.  It *does* preserve history.  
Just checkout a working copy of the root-directory of the repository.  
Then 'svn mv' each item into the trunk/proj/ directory, and 'svn 
commit'.  The history is preserved.  When you run 'svn log' on anything 
within trunk/proj/, you'll see the old history.


> The question, however, still remains why URL loads are not supported, 
> because then it would be immediately clear how to do it!

Because dumping and loading are considered rare things done by 
administrators.  It's a way of migrating data to a new database schema, 
or a new database back-end, or a way of making a large backup into a 
neutral-data format.


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Re: Load dumped repos into a certain URL

["Ronny T. Lampert" <te...@uni.de>]

> you would like to take the existing repos, dump it and load it into an URL
> ( file:///repos/trunk/proj ), not into the plain repos resembling the 
> same structure again, so it later looks like:
 > [...]
> Is there ANY possibility do the above described? I found nothing when 
> searching around.

Please kill me.
svnadmin load --parent-dir /trunk/proj works fine. How could I overlook that 
option.

The question, however, still remains why URL loads are not supported, 
because then it would be immediately clear how to do it!

Sorry.

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