[svk-devel] SVK SVN Mirroring Scenario

[Justin Patrin]

On 7/9/07, Stine, Matt <Matt.Stine at stjude.org> wrote:
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> We are getting ready to release a large body of code into open source, and
> will be mirroring our local SVN repository to a repository located at Google
> Code.  I have followed the online solutions available for doing this with
> SVK, including the solution mentioned in the online SVK book.  I do have a
> couple of tweaks that I need to do, and I want to find out the best way to
> make this happen.
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> We have used some proprietary modules that we cannot distribute, and up to
> this point have maintained them in our repository. I have since moved them
> to another repository.  Since I know that an SVN delete only removes from
> the HEAD revision, I want to find a way to make sure that these are not
> mirrored to the external repository.  In my understanding, an svk smerge
> without the –incremental option will accomplish this, pushing only the HEAD
> revision out. Is that correct? Also, is there a way to do this and maintain
> the history for the other files?
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I would suggest instead doing an dump of your SVN repo them filtering
it to remove those things you wish not to be in the repo, then
reimporting it. I would suggest doing the inverse to move the history
of your proprietary modules to another repo.



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Justin Patrin