Exporting a single project from SVN repository

Question

I'm storing several projects under the same SVN repository. I've followed the manual and did this: I svnadmin dump c:\repository | svndumpfilter include > myproject.dump

My problem is, svndumpfilter chokes with the error "Invalid copy source path" because we moved that particular project from branches back to another folder awhile ago.

Has anyone dealt with this particular problem successfully?

I am currently thinking of dumping the main repository in chunks, skipping the revisions that may cause errors. I will then load each chunk into the new repository, each chunk under a folder, and merge them using Eclipse. Does this sound sane to you? Do you see any problems with it?

Answer 1

How was this project moved? There is an svn move command that can be used to move files/directories and, more important, let subversion know that said files/directories have been moved.

svn move -m "Moved old/dir to new/dir" file:///url/to/old/dir file:///url/to/new/dir

Edit: Since you've already moved it, I suggest you try using svn delete on the project's old location. This should force subversion to remove references to the old location.

svn delete -m "Project was moved some time ago, reflecting in repository" file:///url/to/old/dir

Answer 2

The syntax is

svnadmin dump c:\repository | svndumpfilter include project > myproject.dump

This will include everything below project. For more details I added the svndumpfilter help.

$ svndumpfilter help include
include: Filter out nodes without given prefixes from dumpstream.
usage: svndumpfilter include PATH_PREFIX...

Valid options:
  --drop-empty-revs        : Remove revisions emptied by filtering.
  --renumber-revs          : Renumber revisions left after filtering.
  --skip-missing-merge-sources : Skip missing merge sources.
  --targets ARG            : Pass contents of file ARG as additional args
  --preserve-revprops      : Don't filter revision properties.
  --quiet                  : Do not display filtering statistics.

Answer 3

You can check this question about exporting with dependencies