Question

Currently, I have a large SVN repository with a bunch of different projects within it, as follows:

/
 Project1/
          trunk/
          tags/
          branches/
 Project2/
          trunk/
          tags/
          branches/
 Project3/ 
          (etc...)

However, I’m now trying to break it up into separate repositories (for various reasons), and I would like the following for each project:

/
 trunk/
 tags/
 branches/

If possible, all history and externals should remain intact. However, I’m unsure if this can actually be done. I have seen several questions similar to this on SO but none entirely addresses the issue I have here. Basically I am trying to “pull out” a subdirectory and its entire contents with history from the old repository and plop the whole lot into its own (new) repository.

Am I asking the impossible?

Answer 1

Use

svnadmin dump path/to/repository > repo.dmp

and then use svndumpfilter to only load a subtree into a new repository.