How to dump only a certain part of SVN repository?

Question

How to you move a part of an SVN repository into a new repository?

To move the contents of a complete SVN repository into a new repository, one has to dump the old repository first:

svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > repository-name.dmp

and then load it into the new one using svnadmin load.

But I'm not sure how to just move a part. Do I still have to dump the whole thing? Do I grep for the part that I want?

To just dump myproject, I tried this, but it didn't work:

svnadmin dump /path/to/repository/myproject

.. I think you'd probably find the answer on serverfault, but I think these days there are enough "power users" using SVN on their local machines for it to be worth leaving here. It got votes!

Zac Thompson · Answer 1 · 2010-04-28 04:53:02Z

You need to use svndumpfilter for stuff like this. In particular svndumpfilter include. So for your case:

svndumpfilter include myproject < repository-name.dmp > myproject.dmp
svnadmin load /path/to/myproject-repo < myproject.dmp

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