Problem: -------- I have to modify an old application which was versioned at the time using CVS. Its last release was back in 2013.
Migration to SVN: ----------------- At the start of 2018 I migrated the CVS repository using cvs2svn so I have all of the files available in svn. CVS vs. SVN handling differences: --------------------------------- But in CVS the project checkout is not using a CVS folder as source but rather a "virtual module" defined in the CVSROOT/modules file. It turns out that this project in particular has used 3 different virtual folders embedded in the source tree but originating from three different physical folders in CVS. Using externals in SVN: ----------------------- When migrating the CVS repository to SVN I had similar problems with some applications still in active development and what I did was this: I created a few subfolders below the source folders and copied in the files needed into these. This was done on the repository files before conversion. Then I did the cvs2svn conversion and following that I created externals in the projects that needed these files such that they would be checked out with the project. This has worked fine so far. Creating source folders for externals: -------------------------------------- But for the application now in need of further work I did not do anything like that and now I need to do it but inside of SVN so I can get the same project functionality for these sources... Question: --------- Is it possible in svn to create subfolders in a main folder which contains a *selection* of files from the main folder? I want these files to be in the state they were in at an earlier date than today because they have been changed from what they were at the time and I need to get them as they were when a specific branch was created (in CVS). I am looking at the state on say 2013-11-01. If it is possible then what svn command is needed for the operation? I am on svn 1.9.7 both on the server and client sides. Both run on Windows, server is Windows Server 2016 and client is Win7. I use the command line svn client rather than Tortoise or other GUI tools. Any advice welcome. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
