Move Subversion repository without svnadmin

$ rsync -av blowpass.svn.sourceforge.net::svn/blowpass/* blowpass
$ svnadmin dump blowpass/ > blowpass.dump
$ svnadmin create clearpass
$ svnadmin load clearpass < blowpass.dump

I have been having a terrible time trying to figure out how I can get the Subversion repository for ClearPass out of SourceForge. I could not find a single reference to svnadmin on the SourceForge and no examples of exporting without it. So I took matters into my own hands. Below is a quick and dirty shell script that exports and imports a repository one revision at a time, using common Linux command line tools and the svn command. I'm going to do more testing before using it for real, but so far it has done well. Hope this helps someone else in my position.

Download it: svncrossload

#!/bin/sh

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# LICENSE
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# Copyright 2008 John Hobbs
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# ABOUT
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#
# Home: http://www.velvetcache.org/
#
# This is a script to cross load subversion repositories (kind of) keeping history
# intact without access to svnadmin.  Import into a FRESH repository only, and
# be sure to do a comprehensive diff at the end.
#
# Also be sure to do this in an empty directory. Temp files get added and removed
# without sincere thought put into them.
#
# Log messages get eaten and re-inserted as shown below. Edit to taste.
#   $ svn log -r 1
#   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#   r1 | jmhobbs | 2008-11-12 18:19:43 -0600 (Wed, 12 Nov 2008) | 7 lines
#
#   Imported from file:///srv/svn/scs using svncrossload
#
#     |r1 | jmhobbs | 2008-10-27 17:32:44 -0500 (Mon, 27 Oct 2008) | 2 lines
#     |
#     |Initial import.
#     |
#
#   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#   $

echo "Checking out initial revisions"
svn co $2 importing > /dev/null
svn co -r 0 $1 updateme > /dev/null

echo "Getting most recent revision number"
LATESTREVISION=$(svn info $1 | grep Revision | sed 's/^Revision: *\([0-9]*\)/\1/')

for i in $(seq 1 $LATESTREVISION); do

  echo -e "\nCopying revision $i"

  cd updateme
  svn update -r $i > ../_update
  echo -e "Imported from $1 using svncrossload\n" > ../_log
  # The '\-\-\-\-\...' looks ridiculous, but it works.
  svn log -r $i | grep -v '\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-' | sed 's/\(.*\)/   |\1/'  >> ../_log
  cd ..

  cat _update | grep -E '^A' | sed 's/^A *//' > _update_add
  cat _update | grep -E '^D' | sed 's/^D *//' > _update_del
  cat _update | grep -E '^U' | sed 's/^U *//' > _update_mod

  echo "$(wc -l _update_add | sed 's/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/') Files To Add"
  echo "$(wc -l _update_mod | sed 's/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/') Files To Modify"
  echo "$(wc -l _update_del | sed 's/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/') Files To Delete"

  # Copy
  for j in $(cat _update_add | tr ' ' '@'); do
    if [ -d "updateme/${j//@/ }" ]; then
      mkdir "importing/${j//@/ }"
    else
      cp -f "updateme/${j//@/ }" "importing/${j//@/ }"
    fi
    cd importing
    # We send cerr to null because it warns when we add existing stuff
    svn add "${j//@/ }" 2> /dev/null
    cd ..
  done

  # Modify
  for j in $(cat _update_mod | tr ' ' '@'); do
    if [ -f "updateme/${j//@/ }" ]; then
      cp -f "updateme/${j//@/ }" "importing/${j//@/ }"
    fi
  done

  # Delete
  for j in $(cat _update_del | tr ' ' '@'); do
    cd importing
    svn rm "${j//@/ }"
    cd ..
  done

  echo "Committing"
  cd importing
  svn commit -F ../_log
  cd ..

done

echo "Cleaning up"
rm -rf importing _log _update _update_add _update_del updateme _update_mod
echo "Done!"