combining multiple repos into one

[Ken Liu <ke...@gmail.com>]

Hi all -

I am trying to figure out if it possible to consolidate many small
repositories into one large repository, while retaining revision history.

I have several repositories that each host a single project with the
standard project directory structure (trunk/tags/branches).  For various
reasons, I want to consolidate these into a single repository with multiple
projects at the root.

It seems like I could use dump/load to do this, but I think that once I try
to load the second project into the new repo, it would overwrite the first
project's files (because they have the same trunk/tags/branches structure).
Is there any way to work around this? I could maybe somehow modify the paths
on the fly while they are being dumped?

Thanks,

Ken

Re: combining multiple repos into one

[Ken Liu <ke...@gmail.com>]

Hi all -

Never mind - I figured it out.

svnadmin load --parent-dir

Ironically, I had the PDF of the book open to the exact page that describes
how to do this.  Must be some corollary to Murphy's law to describe this
situation.

Thanks,

Ken


On 2/15/08, Ken Liu <ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> I am trying to figure out if it possible to consolidate many small
> repositories into one large repository, while retaining revision history.
>
> I have several repositories that each host a single project with the
> standard project directory structure (trunk/tags/branches).  For various
> reasons, I want to consolidate these into a single repository with multiple
> projects at the root.
>
> It seems like I could use dump/load to do this, but I think that once I
> try to load the second project into the new repo, it would overwrite the
> first project's files (because they have the same trunk/tags/branches
> structure).  Is there any way to work around this? I could maybe somehow
> modify the paths on the fly while they are being dumped?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>