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Adam Elliott
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Oct 12 '17, 12:47 p.m.

We have a subversion repository with over 40k revisions that we want to import into RTC. Internally our repository is split into five parallel directory structures with their own trunk/branches/tags, which correspond fairly well to RTC components. There are approximately 100 branches we want to keep [at minimum]... each of these branches is present in each of these directory structures.

Since migration is only via the eclipse client, and it only does one branch into one component at a time, this means running the migration 500 times...

Note of those 100 branches, maybe only 10-15 are really active, but even restricting that means running the migration over 50 times. This just isn't very feasible.

Is there some way of automating this? A command line or Java API? Thanks.

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Michael Valenta
FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER (3.7k●3) Jun 07 '12, 3:06 p.m.
As you say, the Subversion importer only supports importing a branch at a time and there is currently no command line support. There is no official API for the Subversion importer but it would certainly be possible to to write a Java based utility that simplified the import of multiple branches.
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paulo xavier
(21●4●6) Oct 04 '12, 4:54 p.m.

I have the same problems and a I have 843 CVS repositories to migrate to RTC scm.

Each one have a lot of branches and tags and should be preserved in the migrations process.

By the way, we have one of the largest instalations in the world in Jazz Enterprise Deployment .

The lack of a an automated process compromises the migration.

This is a very common problem and must have automation. 

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