On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:06:40AM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > So to make it work well from the start, I need to test it well. To > test it, I really want to copy from one SVN server's trunk to another > SVN server's repository - flattening a significant part of the early > history from the source trunk, and then having as-identical-as-practical > checkin comments for the later history.
Use svnadmin dump and maybe svnfilter to generate a dump file from your production repo. Use svnadmin load on the dump file to load this massaged repo data into your test repo. Bob's your uncle. tyler