onsdag 13 juli 2022 kl. 14:57:26 UTC+2 skrev goo...@videosolutions.ltd.uk: > If it was me, I would have taken a branch copy using branch tag and so > the history for the new repository would be retained. > > However, a bright spark decided to make a copy of the old repository and > create a new repository, hence losing all the history and also the SVN > keyword properties for each file. This was only discovered after many > changes have been made and further changes have been made since. > > While the history is not entirely lost, where we still have the old > repository, is there a way of merging the changes, together with its new > history onto the old repository (that remains unchanged). >
If I understand your use case correctly you should be able to run svnadmin dump/svnadmin load (or svnrdump dump/svnrdump load if you don't have access to the Subversion server) to extract the history from the new repository and load it on top of the old repository. If/how successful this is might depend on the layout of the repositories (for example if you have the same pathnames in both repositories). The dump/load process is described in the Subversion book: https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.migrate I highly recommend that you do the merge in a test repository before trying it "live". If you have problems you might use svndumpfilter or reposurgeon (http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/) to adjust the dumpfile before importing it. The Subversion project did a somewhat similar operation many years ago when an old development history (in CVS, but it doesn't make too much difference) was merged with a new development history (in an SVN repository) and then loaded on top of a third repository. The process is described in http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/README under the headline REVISIONIST HISTORY. I hope this gives you a few pointers where to start. If it doesn't work out for you, please post to us...@subversion.apache.org where you can find a lot of experienced Subversion developers. Kind regards, Daniel Sahlberg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tortoisesvn+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/347d7d07-761f-4a60-9e74-494c33dc8667n%40googlegroups.com.
