Creating branch from a subdirectory of another branch?

[Panagiotis Papadakos]

Hi again! I managed to do it using svndumpfilter provided by SVN. It seems
that svndumpfilter2 and svndumpfilter4 did not work for me. Anyway thanks!

 	Panagiotis Papadakos

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Nicholas Allen wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I know that bzr-svn supports different repositiory layouts (i.e where it 
> expects trunk and branches to be kept). I can't remember how to do this and 
> probably a lot has changed since I last tried. I seem to remember there was 
> discussion on removing this functionality but not sure. Hopefully Jelmer can 
> give you a better idea....
>
> Nick
>
> Panagiotis Papadakos wrote:
> | Hi!
> | Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately this does not seem to help me.
> | I get no revisions in the dump for the directory I am searching for
> | (don't know why). Also it seems that hg is capable of creating a branch
> | from any directory of a subversion repository. I just hope that I could
> | do something like this with bzr.
> |
> |
> |     Panagiotis Papadakos
> |
> | On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:
> |
> |> Panagiotis Papadakos <papadako <at> csd.uoc.gr> writes:
> |>
> |>> I am trying to move a project in my university from SVN to bzr. So I used
> |>> the bzr-svn plugin, which worked like a charm. But now I am facing 
> another
> |>> problem. I would like to create a branch holding only a subdirectory of 
> my
> |>> initial branch, created from the SVN, without of course loosing history. 
> I
> |>> could probably use bzr rm and mv, removing uneeded directories, but this
> |>> does not seem like a clean way. Is that possible?
> |>
> |> The way that I accomplished this was to dump my SVN repository and then 
> filter
> |> it using a script such as
> |> 
> http://www.tartarus.org/~simon-anonsvn/viewcvs.cgi/svn-tools/svndumpfilter2,
> |> http://furius.ca/pubcode/pub/conf/common/bin/svndumpfilter3.html,
> |> or my changed version: http://www.undersea.com/~nburrell/svndumpfilter4.
> |>
> |> Then, I imported thefiltered SVN repository using the bzr-svn plugin. 
> Note that
> |> this will sever the historical link to the original versions of files that 
> we
> |> copied into the subdirectory from outside.  I know of no other solution 
> besides
> |> using bzr rm and mv on the full branch to prune the HEAD down to the
> |> subdirectory you want (which will of course keep the history for all other 
> paths
> |> in the bzr repository).  Peace,
> |>
> |> -Neil
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |
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