On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:44:41PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > >> Now, when I try to run cat svn-dumpfile | svndumpfilter include > >> /htdocs/CCDB | svnadmin load /path/to/new/repo I get an error from > >> svndumpfilter: > >> svndumpfilter: Invalid copy source path '/CCDB' > > > Somewhere in history the path you include was copied from /CCDB. > > You need to include copy history, i.e. you need add /CCDB to your > > include list. > > I know I have some projects that were imported or loaded from a cvs > conversion into the wrong place, then immediately moved. I haven't > tried to separate these back out, but if I ever do, is there a way to > clean up the path? Would it work to start the dump at the revision > of the move to the current path (without --incremental) if I'm willing > to lose the older history that might have been in a cvs conversion?
You'd have to edit the dump file to transform the copy event into a plain addition, i.e. fake a different history. That is not what 'svnadmin dump' and 'svndumpfilter' have been designed to do. I don't know of any tools that automate this.
