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From: Christopher Schultz <chris@christopherschultz.net>
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:26:51 -0400
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Konstantin,

On 9/1/17 5:10 AM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2017-09-01 0:42 GMT+03:00 Christopher Schultz
> <chris@christopherschultz.net>:
>> 
>> Mark,
>> 
>> On 8/31/17 5:38 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>> On 31/08/17 22:13, Christopher Schultz wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>> 
>>>> I've got a subversion repository with multiple "projects"
>>>> similar to how ASF has their set up: each project gets a
>>>> top-level directory, then /trunk, /tags, and /branches below
>>>> each of those top-levels.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to merge two of my projects together, and I can
>>>> only see three options:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Check out the entire repository and "svn mv" individual 
>>>> files/directories between the projects in the working copy,
>>>> then do a single commit.
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Do an "svn mv project-url-A project-url-b/temp" and then
>>>> move the files around within the working copy of
>>>> project-url-b to get them where I want them.
>>>> 
>>>> This will create at least two commits, where the first
>>>> commit creates a bit of a not-sane state with regard to
>>>> project-b, but isn't the worst thing that could happen.
>>>> 
>>>> 3. Do individual "svn mv" operations on each of the files
>>>> and directories I want to move as URLs (i.e. not using the 
>>>> working-copy). This will create many commits where the state
>>>> of project-B is potentially broken.
>>>> 
>>>> Are there any other ways of doing this that I haven't thought
>>>> of? I'd really like to have a single commit that goes from
>>>> these projects being separate to them being unified without
>>>> breaking any builds or doing any "temp" funny business like I
>>>> have in option 2 above.
>>> 
>>> 1. but with a sparse checkout so you only checkout the projects
>>> you want to merge?
>> 
>> Sounds perfect. Thanks for the pointer. :)
> 
> +1
> 
> For sake of completeness, there is also a tool called "svnmucc", 
> which nowadays is included with standard svn distribution.
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svnmucc.re.html
> 
> It can perform several move operations in the same commit.

Thanks for the additional reference. In my case, the sparse-checkout
made a lot more sense, because I needed to do things like run our test
suite on the resulting working copy before I committed anything.

But next time I need to "archive" a whole bunch of RCs or really old
tags or something, I'll definitely keep svnmucc in mind.

- -chris
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