by Morgan Aldridge morgant@makkintosshu.com
svnsplit is a wrapper around svnadmin & svndumpfilter which simplifies the process of splitting portions of a Subversion repository out into a new repository. It allows specifying inclusions and exclusions, incl. supporting globbing to make it easier to hone in on exactly what you want.
There are two required parameters: -i <input-repo-uri> and -o <output-repo-path>; -i being the input repository URI for a local repository and -o being the path & name to the new repository to create.
Optional commands are: include <path> [...] and exclude <path> [...], each accepting an arbitrary number of repository-relative paths to either include or exclude. These repository-relative paths support globbing ('?', '*', etc) for matching files and paths, if wrapped in double quotes.
Important considerations:
svnsplitcurrently only operates on local repositories, which must be specified with a fullfile://URI.- While the
includeandexcludecommands and paths can be specified together and in either order, inclusions always supersede exclusions in the order of operations. After all, you can't exclude something that hasn't been included! - When including only a subdirectory, make sure to include any parent directories to ensure that the repository can be created correctly. It doesn't know to create parent directories which you've excluded, directly or indirectly.
It is suggested to use the -v option for verbose output.
svnsplit -v -i file:///path/to/input/repo -o new-repo include trunk trunk/some/path exclude trunk/some/other-path
svnsplit is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.