将外部导入到我自己的SVN存储库中

Question

I use TortoiseSVN to keep track of a few projects. One of my repositories (let's call it "Repo A") has an external which is a certain folder from another "Repo B", but from now on I need to commit certain changes to this folder and these changes are related only to Repo A.

I could, of course, add a manual copy of the folder to my repository and start committing, but this comes with two disadvantages:

• It's a rather large folder, and this will consume more disk space as SVN doesn't know the folder is simply a copy from another Repo (at a certain rev. number)
• The previous commit logs to this folder (from Repo B) won't show up when viewing the history for Repo A.

What I want to do basically is to "fork" the folder into another Repository. Is there an intuitive way of doing this?

Answer 1

• You can't physically move folder from repo to repo and don't have some additional space "wasted" - repositories are independent entities and all it's objects must be kept in it
• But you can have this folder in RepoA with all history from RepoB: just perform dump|load cycle for folder in question( svnadmin dump + svndumpfilter or svnrdump dump for getting dump of repo's part)