Is there a clean way to move / to /trunk?

Question

I made the mistake of creating a Subversion repository without the usual trunk, branches, and tags directories. That is, the root dire

Answer 1

As the other answers point out, just doing a svn mv into the trunk directory will do this. To then update your working copy, check out the svn switch command.

Answer 2

Can’t you just create the trunk dir and move everything from / to trunk?

Answer 3

Used therefromhere's answer, which worked fine, but wanted to add the commands including the parameters, i.e. as executed on the svn server's command line:

1. Dump your existing repository into a file:

   svnadmin dump /path/to/myrepo/ > /some/dir/myproject.svndump
   

2. Create a new repository:

   svnadmin create /path/to/mynewrepo/
   

3. Add the trunk/ folder and commit it, in the working copy directory:

   mkdir trunk; svn add trunk; svn commit trunk -m "Add: trunk folder"
   

4. Load the dumpfile into the new repository using trunk as parent-dir:

   svnadmin load --parent-dir trunk /path/to/mynewrepo/ < /some/dir/myproject.svndump
   

Answer 4

Quick example of how I did it.

I wanted to move file:///svn/myRepo to file:///svn/myRepo/trunk

cd /  
svnadmin dump /svn/myRepo > my.dump  
killall svnserve  
sudo rm -r -f /svn/myRepo  
svnadmin create /svn/myRepo  
svnserve -d -r /svn  
svn mkdir file:///svn/myRepo/trunk -m "Created trunk dir"  
svnadmin load /svn/myRepo --parent-dir trunk < my.dump

Answer 5

The clean way to do this is using svnadmin to dump out the whole repository using

svnadmin dump

Then create a new repository with the trunk directory at the root, and reload the dump with

svnadmin load --parent-dir trunk

If you do an svn move then that will mess things up if you ever update back to a revision before the move, since the files will move back to their previous location, which is probably not what you want.

Answer 6

You need to create /trunk and do an svn move of all contents of root inside the trunk and then commit.

After that you'll switch your working copy to /trunk.