SVN Reorganization

Question

I know this question has been asked a few times, which I've found answers for on here and tried, but I can't get this to work, so looking some help.

Using VisualSVN Server 2.5.8 on Windows.

I originally set up a repository structure as follows:

This translates to D:\SVN Repositories\ so that each repository is in it's own folder

I've started to finally realize that this is not very organized, as I'm up to 34 repos/folders, and I'd like to try and clean it up, something like this:

Using previous questions on here, I learned about SVNADMIN dump, and load. So as a test, I tried the following:

svnadmin dump "D:\SVN Repositories\AndroidDebtDestroyer" > D:\Dump1.dump

I then tried to load this in to the new directory, using the following:

svnadmin load "D:\SVN Repositories\Android\AndroidDebtDestroyer" < D:\Dump1.dump

This didn't work, giving me an error:

svnadmin: E720003: Can't open file 'D:\SVN Repositories\Android\AndroidDebtDestroyer\format': The system cannot find the path specified.

I've tried adding the --parent-dir command as well, but this also didn't work.

Unfortunately dragging does not work in VisualSVN Manager, and I can't just drag and drop repos into the new folders, so I'm sorta at a lose as to how to do this? Can TortoiseSVN do this? I'm not savvy with the commandline for svn

Thanks.

Answer 1

Prior to doing svnadmin load you must create the repository.

svnadmin create "D:\SVN Repositories\Android\AndroidDebtDestroyer"

I've not used visual svn server, I'm sorry I cannot speak to how it works.

Though I must say I'd rather have the 30odd repositories at the top level than the nested approach. I remember the names, but not the paths... and these are things one tends to type a lot.