I'm trying to migrate an old repository (let's call it myOldRepo
) to a new repository (myNewRepo
).
I've got an svndump of the old repo, myOldRepo.dump
. I've checked out my new repository, myNewRepo
. Both are in the same directory. I'm trying to use the following command to load the old repo dump into the new repo:
svnadmin load ./myNewRepo < ./myOldRepo.svndump
This gives the following error:
svnadmin: Can't open file 'myNewRepo/format': No such file or directory
I've been using SVN for a long time, and I haven't seen a format
file in any of my repositories. What is this format
that is expected in myNewRepo?
I also tried creating an empty format
file (touch format
) in the myNewRepo directory. Then, when I do the svnadmin load
command, I get the following:
svnadmin: Can't read file 'myNewRepo/format': End of file found
I've seen posts that are similar to this, but I haven't yet found a post that quite answers my question.
You need to load the dump directly into the repository, not a subfolder. You have to specify the path to the repository, not the checked out working copy. Try this:
svnadmin create ./myNewRepo
svnadmin load ./myNewRepo < ./myOldRepo.svndump
This should do the trick..
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