How do I dump one project out of an SVN repository which contains multiple projects?

Question

I am working with an SVN repository with many projects. I need to move a few of the projects out of that repository into individual repositories, one for each project, keepi

Answer 1

Just an small addition to @Avi answer and @Kit comment.

If you use svndumpfilter, you may lose a commit that is necessary for loading the repository (source).

In my case:

cat dump | svndumpfilter --drop-empty-revs --renumber-revs include trunk/project > project.dump 
svnadmin load --ignore-uuid /opt/svn/newlocation < project.dump
<<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1 
svnadmin: File not found: transaction '0-0', path 'trunk/project'

The solution was to commit an upper directory trunk first.

Answer 2

You can use the svndumpfilter utility to do this. The SVN book has a good explanation of how to do this.

For instance, one way would be:

$ svnadmin dump /path/to/repo 
     | svndumpfilter include /proj > dump-file
$ svnadmin create /new/proj/repo
$ svnadmin load --ignore-uuid /new/proj/repo < dump-file
$ svn rm file:///path/to/repo/proj