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Mokus
Asked: 2012-09-05 08:04:41 +0800 CST

How can I split an SVN repository?

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In our group we have a repository, we would like to move the repository, but in he meantime also we would like to delete some folders and re-indexing the revision(delete all the revision numbers which are related to the deleted folder) Is this possible? If yes How?

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    You should take the repository offline by stopping either svnserve or Apache.

    Then dump the repository content to file using a command like

    svnadmin dump repos-folder/ > repos-dumpfile

    After that you can split the dump by filtering out the relevant changes by using the svndumpfilter tool. In the example below "my-branch" is the path within the repository that you want to put into a separate repository:

    svndumpfilter include my-branch --drop-empty-revs --renumber-revs < repos-dumpfile > branch-dumpfile
svndumpfilter exclude my-branch --drop-empty-revs --renumber-revs < repos-dumpfile > nobranch-dumpfile

    Then you can create the empty repositories for the filtered dump files and import the dump data:

    svnadmin create repos-branch-folder
svnadmin load --ignore-uuid repos-branch-folder < branch-dumpfile
svnadmin create repos-nobranch-folder
svnadmin load --ignore-uuid repos-nobranch-folder < nobranch-dumpfile

    You can find further information in the Repository Maintenance section of the excellent Subversion Book.

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