restoring svn repo

[sam foster]

hey folks,
I had to move off my old vignette laptop in a hurry, and grabbed the directory with all my stuff - including the svn repo data itself. (i was using the flat file db option). Note I did not do a svnadmin dump of the repos.
Now I'm moved into my shiny macbookpro, I face the challenge of restoring those repositories. Everything I can find about restoring svn backups assumes you did a svnadmin dump. The data is in there... but how to convince svn of that?

thanks for any ideas,
Sam

[sam foster]

Just to close the circle, I did eventually get around to trying some of the suggestions I got (over on the evolt list - another community I've not given the time they deserve recently). I wrote it up on my blog:
http://sam-i-am.com/work/2008/02/restoring-svn-repositories-from-disk.html

Basically, if you're doing svn via apache/DAV, you just use the SVNParentPath directive to point at your directory that contains your repo(s) - the parent directory, not the repo itself. And set the permissions correctly - and you're off.

Sam
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