I’ve been developing a new feature of a public project in secret, in my own private Subversion repository. It’s almost entirely new code in a new directory. There’s only one file that’s based on an existing file, and it’s been heavily rewritten.
There will come a time when I will want to publish this new code to the project’s public Subversion repository. At that time, I could export the code from my private repository and import it to the public one, but this would lose my history. Is there a way to preserve the history — replay the revisions in order somehow? Other developers of this public project seem to be doing so, but I believe they are making their modifications locally in git clones of the public Subversion repository, and then using git-svn to later commit the revisions to the public Subversion repository. I have not used git-svn and am not comfortable using git which is why I did not attempt this method. My private repository is not an svnsync’d copy of the public repository; it’s just an empty repository with my code in it. I don’t have administrative access to the public repository so I cannot “svnadmin load” anything, nor would I want to import the revisions verbatim: for example, I would not want the original commit date and commit author to be preserved; the commit date should be the date when I publish to the public repository, and the author should be my id in the public repository, as with any other of my commits.
