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Paul Sasik
Paul Sasik

Reputation: 81537

How to move a project to a new SVN repository?

What's the best/easiest/fastest way to move a project from a local copy to a new repository?

The machine hosting the original repository died and I am in the process of recreating a repo on a new machine from local copies.

EDIT: I should have mentioned that all the clients are Windows machines and only one has cygwyn (to support the rm command.)

Upvotes: 7

Views: 2584

Answers (4)

marcc
marcc

Reputation: 12399

Everyone here is suggesting to delete the svn folders. SVN has a "export" command to make a copy of the folder without the .svn folders, which is ready for import later.

Upvotes: 12

Clinton Bosch
Clinton Bosch

Reputation: 2589

If the original repository is dead, then you have lost the history. The best thing to do is delete the .svn directories in the tree (rm -rf find ./ -iname .svn) and re-import the source onti a new repository created on the new server

Upvotes: 0

Brian R. Bondy
Brian R. Bondy

Reputation: 347546

Copy the source to a new location, remove all the .svn subdirectories. Import the net result.

Upvotes: 0

timdev
timdev

Reputation: 62914

rm -rf `find . -name .svn`
svn import [...]

Of course, you'll have not history, since your original repo died, and you must not have a backup.

Upvotes: 0

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