> Hi there ! > > I am trying to cleanup my SVN history. Back in the beginning of > the > project I started using SVN without the standard layout (trunk, > branches, tags parent dir). Now using svndumpfilter, I would like > to > pretend that initial history [r1-1097] did happen within the trunk > directory. For that I use svnadmin dump and then play with node- > path > using sed: > > cat initial.dump | sed -e 's,^Node-path: Applications,Node-path: > trunk/Applications,' -e 's,^Node-copyfrom-path: > Applications,Node-copyfrom-path: trunk/Applications,' > clean.dump > > Since trunk directory did not exist I tried doing: > > svnadmin create clean > svn mkdir -m"Initial project roots" file://`pwd`/clean/trunk > svnadmin load --quiet --ignore-uuid clean < clean.dump > > However it fails with: > > svnadmin: File not found: transaction '835-n7', path > 'trunk/Applications' > > Now if do: > > svnadmin create clean > svn mkdir -m"Initial project roots" file://`pwd`/clean/trunk > svn mkdir -m"Initial project roots" > file://`pwd`/clean/trunk/Applications > svnadmin load --quiet --ignore-uuid clean < clean.dump > > It fails with: > > svnadmin: File already exists: filesystem 'clean/db', transaction > '184-55', path 'trunk/Applications' > > Am I missing something ? Is there a tool to re-root a bunch of > files/directories that were not initially created within a 'trunk' > dir > ? >
If you are putting this into the same repository why not just export the stuff.... then import it into the path you would like it to reside? This will begin the history for that new path. BOb
