I have migrated a project from CVS to SVN. Now I need to rename that project. What can be the best possible way to rename it, keeping the all the history intact. The project fol
SVN Book \ 5. Repository Administration \ Moving and Removing Repositories:
Subversion repository data is wholly contained within the repository directory. As such, you can move a Subversion repository to some other location on disk, rename a repository, copy a repository, or delete a repository altogether using the tools provided by your operating system for manipulating directories
Rename is typical done on the same server, so a simple rename/move of the repository directory will do it. The call of svnadmin setuuid
is not required, because you are not making a copy and the UUIDs should stay the same, so your client can easily relocate to the new repository URL.