Replace Subversion Folder and Retain History

I have two development trees v3.3, and v3.4 in one SVN repository. They both contain a project called test-harness. However, the v3.4 developers have wrecked the test-harness so we need the test-harness from project in v3.3 to overwrite what we have in v3.4. I want to retain the history of change made to 3.4 test-harness as it has some interesting ideas.

I had thought of deleting the 3.4 test-harness folder, then just adding an exported copy of 3.3 test-harness into 3.4, but then I'd lose the v3.4 test-harness history . . .

What is the best way to do this开发者_运维技巧?

When removing the 3.4 folder and copying the 3.3 folder over it nothing is lost. That’s what subversion is there for. You can access the “old” version 3.4 by using a “peg revision”, i.e. use

svn ls path:/to/repository/version/3.4@<some old revision>

to take a look at what the path looked like at that old revision.

You can delete all files in the 3.4 folder and then branch (or copy) V3.3 in that empty folder. Subversion will keep the entire history of the 3.4 folder anyway. I think the best thing would be to branch the current 3.4 Version into an alternative folder (e.g 3.4-broken should keep the history, too), delete the original folder and branch 3.3 into 3.4.

maybe it helps you:

Move a file or directory

svn move source destination

Renaming a file or directory:

svn rename oldname newname

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