Questions tagged [svnadmin]

svnadmin is the administrative tool for monitoring and repairing your Subversion repository.

The svnadmin program is the Subversion repository administrator's best friend. Besides providing the ability to create Subversion repositories, this program allows you to perform several maintenance and repair operations on those repositories.

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Why is a SVN dump of a single revision larger than a full dump?

My repository is 2.5G. A dump via svnadmin dump myrepos > dumpfile is 5G. But when I do a dump like svnadmin dump myrepos -r 23785 > rev-23785.dumpfile where 23785 is the youngest revision the dump goes beyond 15G and at that point I stop the…
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converting svn repo to git using reposurgeon

I am trying to convert an svn repo to git using reposurgeon. Here is what I did ( have a repo.map file that has the svn name -> git name mapping): svnadmin dump /home/subversion > repo.svn reposurgeon "verbose 1" "repo.svn" "authors read" "write…
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SVN Move code with history between two repositories

I have to work on two repositories and want to move one directory with code between the two while keeping revisionhistory. I read a few questions here on SO, but am still not sure which way to go. Our Repositories are HUGE (files (orkingcopy) not…
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svnadmin create: Option Expected

Can someone enlighten me on this... When I uncomment the line in /etc/subversion/config store-auth-creds = no, and when I create a new repo, I see the following error: svnadmin: /etc/subversion/config:37: Option Expected I understand that that 37…
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svndumpfilter --drop-empty-revs keeps padding revision

We are splitting a big svn repository (100k+ revs) into several smaller repos. I am using svndumpfilter (v1.7.2) to split the dump and svndumptool/sed to filter the big dump. Everything works fine, except that there are still some "padding…
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Missing revision in SVN repository

Apparently one of the old revisions has disappeared from an svn repository: svn checkout http... myrepo svn: REPORT of '/svn/myrepo/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read chunk size: connection was closed by server (http://localhost) $ svnadmin verify…
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Splitting up an SVN Repository

so when trying to set up an SVN server I somehow managed to make our repositories folder a single repository, and every repository created after that was treated as part of that repository. Now I have a multiple projects living in one repository…
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How to migrate a codebase from one svn repo to another preserving history?

I have a branch in a badly structured svn repo that needs to be stripped out and moved to another svn repository. (I'm trying to clean it up some). If I do an svn log and not stop on copy/rename I can see all 3427 commits that I care about. Is there…
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Optimize SVNAdmin Verify in SVN

I have a large repository into a SVN Server in the enterprise i work. I need to verify the integrity of this repository everyday to check for some instability or rupture of the SGBD. I'm using the prompt command line "svnadmin path_to_my_repository"…
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Merging a part of SVN repository to another repository with history

I have to svn repositories , lets say A and B. I want to add some of the directories of the B into A along with history.Is it possible to do that. To make more clear, following is the scenario. repo A repo B …
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Subversion - Move folder to another already existing repository

I have the following SVN structure: ExistingRepository1 ... MyFolder FolderToMove ... ExistingRepository2 ... AnotherFolder FolderToMove <- moved here ... So I already read this question: How do I move a single folder from one Subversion…
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Migrate SVN repository from Google code to another repository server (keeping history)

I read some question/answers here about how to do it using svnadmin/dump etc. Actually I did not understand properly what I'm supposed to do. How do I migrate an SVN repository to another SVN repository? I think I have to do some sort of dump…
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svnadmin load renumbers revisions

I have a big single repository having multiple projects. I am filtering out few projects out of a complete repository dump using svnadminfilter command. I have dumped the complete repository using --drop-empty-revs switch (and without…
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How to continue a load that has failed in Subversion

I have started to load a subversion dump into a repository. Before it could finish, I exhausted my quota and the command stopped <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 327 * editing path : XXX/YYY/Makefile ... done. …
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How do I setup a simple SVN server?

I have a working repository that I created a long time ago, and now I'm trying to set up another, but I'm having great difficulty. Here's what I did to create the second one; and I would expect this to work: U:\repos>svnadmin create…
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