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Jason
Jason

Reputation: 12789

How to move my SVN project to a different server

I have some threads which talk about doing a svndadmin and a svnload, I don't have admin privileges hence I would want to just copy the existing project devoid of the .svn directories and just do a svn add on the target repository. I am not that keen on migrating the existing revisions/comments along with it.

Are there any scripts available to do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 509

Answers (3)

sylvanaar
sylvanaar

Reputation: 8216

You most likely want to use svnsync

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.ref.svnsync.html

It isn't that complicated, and why lose history if you don't have to.

Upvotes: 2

counterflow
counterflow

Reputation: 162

You'll need two clean folders, source and target, to achieve this. You need it both for SVN CheckOut and SVN Export.

Assuming you have created that Target Repository, here are the steps:

  1. Do an "svn checkout" of the Target Repository.
  2. Do an "svn export" of the Source Repository.
  3. Copy the exported files and folders from the source to the target on your local filesystem. The files and folders would then show as new or unversioned files.
  4. Now do an "svn commit" from the target folder.

If I'm not mistaken, the SVN EXPORT will try to export also External Definitions. If you want to omit these you need to use the "--ignore-externals" switch.

Good luck.

Upvotes: 1

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301527

What do you mean devoid of .svn directories? The repo doesn't have those, only the working directory does.

Since you do not care about history, you can do svn export to get the contents of the repo and then svn import or svn add it into the repo on the other server. It should be pretty straight forward.

Upvotes: 2

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