Sounds like you might want to take advantage of svn:externals.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html

Eric.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:51 PM Mun Johl <mun.j...@kazan-networks.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're using SVN version 1.8.19 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 .
>
> For a new project we are about to undertake, I need to create a new
> directory in our repository (let's call it ^/trunk/new_project).
> However, most of the directories/files in the "new_project" directory
> will come from other areas of the same repository that are being
> consolidated into a new directory.
>
> I was thinking of creating this new directory structure and then doing
> an 'svn import'.  However, that will result in the loss of the existing
> logs, right?
>
> If I want to maintain the logs of the leveraged files, is my only
> recourse to use 'svn copy' to get all of the leveraged files into
> "new_project"?  Unfortunately, that will add a lot of complexity for the
> 100's of files that will need to reside under ^/trunk/new_project.
>
> Any suggestions would be welcomed.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Mun
>

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