svndump

I have some repositories, and I need to transform the content of each one in subfolders of another repository preserving their history log ... How can I do that? There are two ways to accomplish the task. Depending on Subversion server distribution and task complexity you may find one of them easier or more convenient than the other. Filtering repository history with svndumpfilter tool The solution is quite tricky because Subversion repository history filtering works based on paths you specify to include or exclude in a repo dump output. In short you should do the following: Dump your current

I was just thinking of writing a shell script to implement the obliterate functionality in an easy to do way (externally, using the suggested way, but automated). Here's what I had in mind: On the client svn list -R > file-list . filter file-list in several ways like grep to create a file "files-to-delete", something like a set of grep XXX file-list>>files-to-delete . transfer files-to-delete to the server using scp. On the server Dump the repository svnadmin dump /path/to/repos > repos-dumpfile , this can be kept as a backup too. Filter the dump file, for each word in "files-to-delete", do: