Question

Is there any tool (or can svnsync do this, I don’t think it can) that can copy a specific file or directory from one repo to another (both remote)?

I want to provide a read-only repo for a code library, but only a subset of that library, not the whole thing.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you could write a little script that exports the file(s) of the private project and commits the svn-clean-files to your public project.

This way even svn diffs on the public project are possibly albeit that’s not the same as the original svn history. But thats good as it’s not intended.

Something like this as cron job?

#!/bin/bash

EXPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/projectXXXXXX)

svn export --force svn+ssh://USERNAME@yourserver/repository/project/sub/ $EXPDIR/
svn add $EXPDIR/ svn+ssh://USERNAME@publicserver/repository/subpart/
cd $EXPDIR/
svn ci -m "update `date`" $EXPDIR/

#cleanup
rm -rf "/tmp/$EXPDIR"