Question

I want to simplify my legacy c# solution down from 5 projects to 3. I want to keep all the relevant source files, but move them around on the local disk to reflect the new project
structures.
SVN repository reflects the old project/directory structure. How best to get svn to reflect this new structure whilst maintaining the revision history of the files? For instance I have a file with path

c:\workarea\BigSolution\DefunktProj\foo.cs

with svn path

trunk/BigSolution/DefunktProj/foo.cs.

I want to move foo.cs to

c:\workarea\BigSolution\AliveProj\foo.cs

and would like svn to see this and maintain the file history.

Answer 1

If both /DefunktProj and /AliveProj are dirs inside common SVN-repository (and aggregated Working Copy, which include both dirs), you can do it easy: Just reorganize tree, using only SVN move for files, not pure Explorer move

Most forgotten feature article on TortoiseSVN site explain RClick move in details