Change SVN Path Entirely

Question

Hi Guys,

We have an SVN at http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/ - and the first two folders of the SVN are like http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/abc/filefolder/

The problem is we want to move the entire svn to get rid of /abc/filefolder/ as the entire project sits under /abc/filefolder/ [created long ago and never bothered to change] (que stupid yes yes)

How would we could about fixing this so we dont loose logs etc? We dont want to have to export and create a new svn, since then we lose all our log files. But we want to "move" the svn root so for example it becomes:

From: http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/abc/filefolder/documents/
To: http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/documents/

Any help appreciated? [ps - yes had to remove http:// due to link restriction]

Answer 1

How about you just move the folders you want at the top level, working on the repository, for example:

svn move http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/abc/filefolder/documents/ http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/

Back up your repository beforehand, of course.