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Migrating part of repository in SVN

Phew, I finally did it. Migrating part of an svn-repository to a new repository while changing the destination paths isn’t as trivial as the svn manual implies. The workflow according to the book should look like this:

  1. Dump the repository while filtering with svndumpfilter
  2. Edit the dumpfile to change paths
  3. Load the dumpfile into the new repository

While this is basically what I did, it wasn’t as straight forward as it sounds…

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