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Reputation: 609

Change SVN working directory to own repository

So I have checked out a repository of an online project with svn checkout <url>. However, I obviously can't commit to it, since it's not mine. How do I convert that working copy to my own, local repository?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 103

Answers (1)

uzsolt
uzsolt

Reputation: 6037

The subversion isn't DVCS (like git) so you can't do it what do you want (commit locally and push to repository). More about it check this.

But if you want "fork" the repository you can do it. You can use svnrdump which dumps a remote repository. You can use this dump to create own repository and should checkout this with svnadmin load.

# dump the remote repository
svnrdump dump URL > dumpfile
# create an empty repository
svnadmin create /own/repository/path
# load the dumpfile into own repository
svnadmin load /own/repository/path < dumpfile
# checkout your locally repository
svn checkout /own/repository/path /your/checkout/dir

Now you can commit changes and create diffs to send it as patch to the original repository.

Upvotes: 3

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