"svnadmin load" loads into an existing repository; it does not create one

published Apr 20, 2010 07:47 by admin ( last modified Apr 20, 2010 07:47 )

svnadmin dump repository > repository.svndump
svnadmin create repository
svnadmin load repository < repository.svndump

I needed to downgrade a couple of repositories from format version 3 to 2 in order to work with RHEL, and it took me a while to realise that svnadmin load loads into an existing repository, it does not create a new one. So first create the repository with svnadmin create, then load into it.