Subversion

This post gives you the Windoze commands because this was something I worked on for my Office.

We have a project.  Let’s call it project1.  When the repo for the project was initially created it was not created with branches, trunk, and tags folders in the root.  Going forward, everything was just committed to the root instead of to the trunk folder.  Well, now we want to follow best practices and begin committing to the trunk.  We don’t want to lose any of our repo history in the process though if we have to do re-creations of the repo.

We tried to do an svn mv, but you can’t move a repo to a path within the repo.  So here’s what we did.

1. Make a dump of the current repo
   svnadmin dump c:\Repositories\myproject1\ > c:\myproject1.dump
2. Delete  the current repo (I’m assuming you have a backup if something goes wrong.  You do, don’t you?).
   rmdir c:\svn\myproject1
3. Recreate the repo.  This time let’s be sure to make branches, trunk, and tags folders in the root.
   svnadmin create c:\Repositories\myproject1
svn mkdir trunk
svn mkdir branches
svn mkdir tags
4. Load the dump into the trunk (Gross):
   svnadmin load c:\Repositories\myproject1\ --parent-dir trunk < c:\myproject1.dump

There it is.

You might also give this a try: http://chipcastle.blogspot.com/2008/08/subversion-forgot-to-create-trunk.html

Here is an SVN Global Ignore Pattern that you might find useful:

._* .project .DS_Store Thumbs.db WS_FTP.LOG _notes _vti_* *.LCK

You implement it in the Windows world using TortoiseSVN’s settings tab. It looks like this:

For the mac you need to edit subversion’s config file:

pico ~/.subversion/config

Uncomment the global-ignores line and modify it to look something like this:

global-ignores = ._* .project .DS_Store Thumbs.db WS_FTP.LOG _notes _vti_* *.LCK _sources