On Oct 21, 2010, at 23:37, mfass wrote: > I have two subversion servers. One is an open source repository not > controlled by me, and the other is a closed source repository which is > controlled by me. Both the open source and the closed source build together > to make one set of software. The closed source is a firewalled server at my > place of employment. Currently we are in need to rename the project for a > launch announcement at an upcoming conference. > > Becasue of the sensitive nature of the announcement, we cannot make the > changes to the open source (sourceforge) project because our hosting service > will not temporarily restrict anonymous access to the source code to just > commiter's. > > To workaround this, we decided that we will pull the source code from the > sourceforge project, into our internal, closed source repository. We then > want to make the changes, and once the announcement of the naming etc. has > been done, we can merge back to our sourceforge project the naming changes > that were made. > > I was thinking of doing it via svn copy from one project to the other, and > then taking the diff and copying back as we need.
You cannot "svn copy" between repositories, only within a repository. Subversion really isn't designed to do what you propose. I don't have a better suggestion for you. Maybe someone else does.
