How to migrate all URLs in svn:externals properties across a repository?

Question

We are in the process of moving our SVN repositories from one machine to another one, and with it will come a new domain name for the new repo. The problem is, that within

Answer 1

I'd use SvnDumpTool for this. It has exactly what you're looking for:

svndumptool transform-prop svn:externals "(\S*) (|-r ?\d* ?)http://oldserver.net(/\S*)" "\2\3 \1" source.dumpfile source-fixed-externals.dumpfile

This fixes up each external to the subversion 1.5 format, and uses relative URLs.

So svn:externals like:

external/libraryA svn://oldserver.net/repo/libraryA

become:

 /repo/libraryA external/libraryA

using server root relative URLs.