How do I export a part of an SVN repository with dependencies?

Question

I am trying to migrate a part of an SVN repository using svnadmin dump.

The provided svndumpfilter tool doesn\'t manage copy/move/rename dependencies fr

Answer 1

You cannot get rid of this problem. If you copied a directory/file, you have to include both (source and destination) into svndumpfilter.

However, you can do some tricks:

If you dump a repository not from revision 0, but say e.g. from revision 100, you will get a new repository with revision 1-100 vanished. However, your destination repository has all files/folders in revision 1 as your source repository in revision 100. In this way you can get rid of versioned data without losing the HEAD-Revision.

You can try to dump/load your source repository until your first copy into a "flat" repository, then add the remaining dumps onto it. In this way you can skip the troublesome copy-from revision, as your files are already in the fitting (destination) directory.