> On Dec 21, 2016, at 05:32, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 21.12.2016 09:46, Stefan Hett wrote: >> On 12/20/2016 10:54 PM, Tim Erickson wrote: >>> >>> We are installing Subversion on one of our servers for the first >>> time. We have been manually versioning files via a simple directory >>> structure by keeping a version/date directory under the source. This >>> is where we keep old source code. When importing the repository for >>> the first time, is there a way to import all the old source with the >>> current source in a way that it will look like Subversion was >>> actually doing the versioning all along? >>> >>> >> Shouldn't be much work to write a custom script copying over the files >> from your older folders successively over the new files and do >> according svn add/del/ci calls for each version. >> I'm not aware of an existing tool/script doing precisely what you need, > > This is the closest I know of: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn_load_dirs/
That was the script I was going to suggest using as well. Treat your old manually-versioned code as a vendor branch. See the chapter in the svnbook on vendor branches, and previous discussion in the mailing list archives.
