Export SVN dir from one repository and commit to another one

Question

We have an SVN repository which is stored online with all our tickets, wikis, etc. For deployment purposes, we need to use a second SVN repository on which we have no control: we cannot use svndump, svnload, svnsync, etc. We can update and commit basically.

At deployment time, I would like to export a working copy from Dev Repo and then commit it to Staging+Live repo. Please see following sketch for a rough idea of what I need to do.

Is there an SVN command doing just that? I could use the svn export command but then I would have to add all new files by hand I believe. Also, I would like to avoid to export all the files when only few changed. So I would like to avoid recreating the S working copy each time I want to deploy the site.

Or maybe there is a much simpler solution?

Best regards

Answer 1

I'd suggest this approach:

• create a working copy via svn co s+l_repo (initial checkout, can be done manually)
• export your dev repo via svn export into this working copy, overwriting all files in it
• add all new files via svn add --force
• commit your working copy to s+l repo

Easily scripted, and you can run it via a batch job every night.