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I have a subversion repository with 40-50 individual projects stored in it. How can I export all these projects/trees/(or whatever you call them) so I can migrate them to another machine? Bonus points if I don't have to do each one individually :)

Albert
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    What do you mean by "migrate to another machine"? Are you moving the repository to a new server? Trying to get a working copy on another machine? Just wanting to get a copy of the files in your repository? – Ben Nov 16 '13 at 03:05
  • Yes, moving to a new server. – Albert Nov 16 '13 at 21:00
  • Then you probably want to `svn dump` and then `svn load`, or just copy the repository folder, as suggested in the accepted answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49450/how-do-i-export-and-then-import-a-subversion-repo – Ben Nov 17 '13 at 00:19

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I'd use svnadmin dump and svnadmin load as then you don't have to worry about file system level compatibility.

Note that SVN stores everything on the repository level and not the project level. A repository is like blobs of data. If you wanted to separate the projects into different repositories, you'd have a big job on your hands. To merely migrate the whole repository together is easy! Just make sure nobody is writing to the repository while you are taking the dump.

Jeanne Boyarsky
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