How to migrate svn to another repository

Question

Is there any simple way how to copy directory from one repository into another one with copying all of the history?

Answer 1

You can create dump file using "svnadmin dump", then import to a new repository.

Answer 2

Simplest way is using:

svnadmin dump path/to/repos > repos.out

This will create a portable format for your repository (with history) in the file repos.out. You can then use:

svnadmin load path/to/newrepos < repos.out

to load your 'dumped' repos to the new or existing one.

Answer 3

If you don't want history, you can use svn export to get a clean folder without the .svn folders and then svn import into your other repository.

With history, you would need to use the svnadmin dump. You would then use svndumpfilter to filter for only the parts or paths you want to use before using svnadmin load.

Topics to read:
Migrating Repository Data Elsewhere
Filtering Repository History

Answer 4

You can check these questions

• How to move a single folder from one Subversion repository to another repository?
• Exporting a single project from SVN repository
• is it possible to migrate a single component from one svn repository to another while preserving history?
• How do I dump one project out of a SVN repository which contains multiple projects
• How can I extract a subtree from my svn repository into a new one?

Answer 5

As suggested in the subversion book :

svnadmin dump path/to/repos_src \
    | svndumpfilter include path/inside/svn/to/directory \
    | svnadmin load path/to/repos_dst

with an example :

svnadmin dump /var/lib/svn/old_repo \
    | svndumpfilter include trunk/my_project/common_dir \
    | svnadmin load /var/lib/svn/new_repo

Answer 6

Use the svnsync command:

svnsync is the Subversion remote repository mirroring tool. Put simply, it allows you to replay the revisions of one repository into another one.