Question about shuffling top level directory

[Ameet Nanda <am...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have a repository structure like:
*repos/ABC/trunk/abc/src*

I want to remove the trunk and get the structure to a form like
*repos/ABC/abc/src*

I know I can use svn move, but I want to keep the same revision number as of
now. Is there any smarter way to get rid of the trunk dir and make 'abc' go
one level up.

-Ameet

Re: Question about shuffling top level directory

[Les Mikesell <le...@gmail.com>]

On 7/15/2010 9:54 AM, Bob Archer wrote:
>> I have a repository structure like:
>> repos/ABC/trunk/abc/src
>>
>> I want to remove the trunk and get the structure to a form like
>> repos/ABC/abc/src
>>
>> I know I can use svn move, but I want to keep the same revision
>> number as of now. Is there any smarter way to get rid of the trunk
>> dir and make 'abc' go one level up.
>>
>> -Ameet
>
> You can't change what is in the repository without committing it as a revision.
>
> Well... that's not strictly true... you can dump it, use dumpfilter, import it to a new path... but it doesn't seem worth it when a svn mv will do it in a few seconds.

Also, making a change but not changing the revision number doesn't make 
any sense in the context of a revision control system.  It's there to 
make sure you can get back both what you have now and the next thing you 
do to it.  And if you want to think of revision numbers as something to 
keep, you probably should be doing copies into a tags directory instead 
of doing away with the trunk.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@gmail.com

Re: Question about shuffling top level directory

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Just make sure to change the UUID if you go the svndump* route.  Different
repositories should have different UUIDs.

Bob Archer wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:54:04 -0400:
> > I have a repository structure like:
> > repos/ABC/trunk/abc/src
> > 
> > I want to remove the trunk and get the structure to a form like
> > repos/ABC/abc/src
> > 
> > I know I can use svn move, but I want to keep the same revision
> > number as of now. Is there any smarter way to get rid of the trunk
> > dir and make 'abc' go one level up.
> > 
> > -Ameet
> 
> You can't change what is in the repository without committing it as a revision.
> 
> Well... that's not strictly true... you can dump it, use dumpfilter, import
> it to a new path... but it doesn't seem worth it when a svn mv will do it in
> a few seconds.
> 
> BOb
> 

RE: Question about shuffling top level directory

[Bob Archer <Bo...@amsi.com>]

> I have a repository structure like:
> repos/ABC/trunk/abc/src
> 
> I want to remove the trunk and get the structure to a form like
> repos/ABC/abc/src
> 
> I know I can use svn move, but I want to keep the same revision
> number as of now. Is there any smarter way to get rid of the trunk
> dir and make 'abc' go one level up.
> 
> -Ameet

You can't change what is in the repository without committing it as a revision.

Well... that's not strictly true... you can dump it, use dumpfilter, import it to a new path... but it doesn't seem worth it when a svn mv will do it in a few seconds.

BOb