Re: svn migration

Don't top-post On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 21:52, HM 2K <nfhm2k@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM, till <till@php.net> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:29 PM, HM 2K <nfhm2k@gmail.com> wrote: >> > HI there, >> > >> > I'm trying to migrate a PEAR package from SourceForge to PEAR's >> repository. >> > >> > From >> > http://php-docblockgen.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/php-docblockgen/ >> > To >> > http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/PHP_DocBlockGenerator/ >> > >> > What would be the best way of achieving this? Ideally I would like to >> retain >> > the revision history. >> > >> > I attempted a dump/load, but I got the following error at the first >> hurdle: >> > >> > [root@blade sourceforge]# svnadmin dump php-docblockgen > >> > php-docblockgen.dump >> > svnadmin: Can't open file 'php-docblockgen/format': No such file or >> > directory >> > >> >> svndump only works on the actual svn directory which is different from >> a checkout. >> >> Try rsvndump: >> http://rsvndump.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Till >> > Yes, I now see why svnadmin wouldn't work on the checked out. > > Unfortunately rsvndump doesn't appear to run on CentOS, at least, not out of > the box. > > My current consideration is to export it from the current SVN and commit it > to the new SVN, but this of course will lose the SVN revision history. > > At this time, I don't think there is any other way. > > If you know of a better way, feel free to let me know. Gwynne (CCed) has imported history from various other svn repos.. she may have 'exporting suggestions'. -Hannes