I need to move svn folder to one level up and keep all history
All files and directories from https://myserver.com/svn/Project/trunk/
into https://myserver/svn/Project/
I use a command:
svn move https://myserver.com/svn/Project/trunk/ https://myserver/svn/Project/
but it says:
svn: Cannot move path 'https://myserver.com/svn/Project/trunk/' into itself
Who knows how can I resolve that problem? Thanks!
According to this answer and SVN change log, svn cleanup has an option to vacuum pristine copies ( /vacuum ). This is done by default starting from 1.8. From version 1.10 up it is not longer done by default, but can be run using the command svn cleanup --vacuum-pristines (see this answer).
I was just looking for this as well. Then I started looking for a solution and I didn't really find one, except that it did make me think of a solution.
You'd expect the command svn mv ./folder ./
to move everything from the ./folder
to ./
. This isn't actually true, it'll move folder
into the current directory. Since this is where it already is, the command fails.
So, the solution would be to move everything inside ./folder
to ./
. Indeed, the following command does just that:
svn mv ./folder/* ./
If you are willing to use TortoiseSVN then you can simply move the folder with the repository browser. That is how I usually move folders around, very simple and painless.
I don;t know if you can move it that way, personally I would checkout repository, move folder in filesystem and then commit changes, deleting it at one location and adding at another.
Try:
svn switch --relocate https://myserver.com/svn/Project/trunk/ https://myserver/svn/Project/
Please test this in a seperate repository before you run it on your real one!
I ran into a similar issue today but I didn't know how to move it up from tortoise, since I also had settings for that folder.
If the new location https://myserver/svn/Project/
should have only the items from your old location, here is what I did:
Moved https://myserver.com/svn/Project/trunk/
to a new temporary location (e.g. https://myserver/svn/TempProject/
);
Deleted the existing location you want to use (https://myserver/svn/Project/
);
Renamed https://myserver/svn/TempProject/
to https://myserver/svn/Project/
.
This worked for me. It preserved all history, svn settings, etc. The history just got a couple new entries from all the moving around thing.
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