[SVN-2742] 'svnadmin load' should optionally tolerate/skip adds of directories that already exist in the target repo

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.x
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: svnadmin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 16/Mar/07 13:06
• Updated: 13/Oct/17 10:22

Description

Hello,

I am working with cvs2svn to convert existing cvs repositories.
When I am trying to convert multiple cvs repositories into one svn repository
this works when giving cvs2svn --trunk=proj1/trunk as destination.
cvs2svn uses svnadmin to read the created dumpfiles into the svn repository.
So I could read in projects in a structure like

proj1/trunk
proj2/trunk

etc. without problem.

But for some cvs project I need another structure like:

trunk/proj1
trunk/proj2

this fails, because of a:

ERROR: svnadmin failed with the following output while loading the dumpfile:
svnadmin: File already exists: filesystem '/srv/svn/cpp/db', transaction
'717-10', path 'trunk'

So the problem here is that a second dump also starts its path with "trunk"
which already exists.
It would be helpful to have a switch - for starting check of existing path
elements (directory depth) at a given level - to allow importing such kind of
svn dumps.

Original issue reported by powerstat

Issue Links

• relates to: SVN-1853 svndumpfilter forgetting parent dirs