如何从SVN存储库中删除.svn文件夹

Question

Issue:

While loading a dump to a repository, getting below mentioned exception.

<<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
svnadmin: E160020: File already exists: filesystem '/ngs/app/istsvnp/SVNROOT/ACENTERPRISE/db', transaction '805-mv', path 'branches'

Using following command to load to the repository

svnadmin load --bypass-prop-validation ~/SVNROOT/ACENTERPRISE < $NGS1/acenterprise.dump

But when I load the dump ( acenterprise.dump ) to another test repository, I could able to load properly.

Issue looks like, when I checked out the repository ACENTERPRISE in my desktop, could see that there is a .svn folder present.

Is .svn folder is causing the issue (not loading the dump) How can I delete the .svn folder from the working copy of the repository and commit the changes to server.

Please help.

Answer 1

The .svn directory is purely a client-side construct. It's created and used by the client to connect a working copy (what you checked out) back to the server. It does not exist on the server and should never find its way into the repository.

If you are attempting to load a dumpfile into a pre-existing repository that already has activity in it, that will require some additional effort and it will make working with older revisions...weird. If that's what you really need to do, see the following links:

• Merging a part of SVN repository to another repository with history
• http://www.wandisco.com/svnforum/threads/32115-combine-two-repositories