Is it possible to port over comments from one project to a new Repository structure? Meaning is there some sort of comment file you can port?
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A:
You can migrate all repository data, including log messages and revision data, using the svnadmin dump and svnadmin load commands. The --parent-dir option will help you control where in the new repository structure all that data is imported.
For example if you currently have a repository for Project1, and you want to import all that data into MyCompanyRepository/Project1/trunk,
# On the repository server...
svnadmin dump /path/to/repo/for/Project1 > dumpfile
svnadmin load /path/to/repo/for/MyCompanyRepository --parent-dir Project1/trunk < dumpfile
See the Subversion book for details.
Nick Meyer
2009-07-31 16:36:34
well, that is if you did not delete the original repository on the server! right?
CoffeeAddict
2009-07-31 16:41:55
whoops... yep, if you've already deleted the old repository, you deleted all those log messages with it.
Nick Meyer
2009-07-31 16:43:30
what if you want to port to an all diffrent repository alltogether! ??
CoffeeAddict
2009-07-31 20:51:19
For example I'm wanting to port all comments and history from this repository https://xxx.xxx.com:8443/svn/sss/trunk/sssWeb to this one which is a completely new repository and structure I just created using Visual SVN Server: https://xxx.xxx.com:8443/svn/sss/sssWebsite/trunk
CoffeeAddict
2009-07-31 20:54:20
and the second link is an entire new repository /sss/ has really a real name, I just did that for posting purposes here.
CoffeeAddict
2009-07-31 20:58:25
Yes, that's what the dump and load commands do. You can load the dump into a completely different repository.
Nick Meyer
2009-08-01 01:51:59
A:
Once loaded as noted by Nick you can restructure the new repo with svn mv
Gren
2009-07-31 16:38:59