On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:37, Edward Ned Harvey <s...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: alan.james.tay...@gmail.com [mailto:alan.james.tay...@gmail.com] >> On Behalf Of Alan Taylor >> >> My problem is that cfg should be a project within the repo >> and now I want to add another project, i.e. >> /srv/svn/cfg >> /srv/svn/pxe >> >> What is the best way to move things around ? > > This was already said by David, but it was rather buried deep in there... > So just to make sure it didn't sneak past you... > > Read the man pages for each of these, cuz I'm leaving out some details. But > these are the main ingredients. > mkdir foo > svnadmin create foo > svnadmin dump /srv/svn/cfg | svnadmin load foo --parent-dir cfg > mv /srv/svn /srv/svn_old > mv foo /srv/svn > > Thank you to everyone for taking the time to reply. It was very helpful and the move seems to have gone fairly well. For anyone considering the same thing, here's what happened:
I originally created the repository with svnadmin create /srv/svn/cfg (mistake !) I use the svnserve server with sasl authentication. I want to move the repository root to /srv/svn/ and have that contain several projects: /srv/svn/cfg (current) /srv/svn/pxe (new) on the svn server: svnadmin dump /srv/svn/cfg > cfg_orig copy cfg_orig and /srv/svn/cfg/conf/svnserve.conf to somewhere safe as a precaution I also backed up the /srv/svn/cfg directory with the os normal filesystem tools. deleted /srv/svn/ and everything below it svnadmin create /srv/svn svn mkdir file:///srv/svn/cfg svn mkdir file:///srv/svn/cfg/trunk svn mkdir file:///srv/svn/cfg/branches svn mkdir file:///srv/svn/cfg/tags svnadmin load /srv/svn/ --parent-dir cfg < tmp/cfg_orig chown -cR svn:svn /srv/svn/* chmod g+w /srv/svn/db/rep-cache.db (not sure about the last, supposed bug in svn 1.6 ?) service svnserve restart on my normal client workstation (titan is the svn server): $svn mkdir svn://titan/pxe $svn mkdir svn://titan/pxe/trunk $svn mkdir svn://titan/pxe/branches $svn mkdir svn://titan/pxe/tags $svn import /some_directory/pxe_files svn://titan/pxe/trunk -m "Initial import from cfg" $ svn checkout svn://titan/cfg/trunk cfg/ $ svn checkout svn://titan/pxe/trunk pxe/ Seems to be working fine. Initially created the pxe hierarchy with the 'svn mkdir file:///' commands, but that resulted in an authentication failure when I tried to connect using svnserve from the client. I deleted the directories and re-created them from the client using 'svn mkdir svn://' as above - that seemed to solve the problem. I'm not sure why the 'cfg' hierarchy should have been different ? Anyway, all seems to be working fine. Many thanks to you all for the very helpful replies. BRgds/Alan
