I got some old .svn folders (from 2012) and I want to important them into a new repository. The old repository were on a server that is down. How can I get them into a local repository?
I already tried creating a new repository, checking it out, copying the .svn into it and to relocate it with TortoiseSVN. But I get the error that the uuid is wrong.
The .svn folder has "pristine" copies of the checked out files, so one thing you could do is svn revert everything to get the pristines out of it:
# do this in the same folder that contains the .svn folder
svn revert -R .
You can do the same thing TortoiseSVN by right-clicking on the folder that contains the .svn folder, selecting "Revert", checking all items you want, and then hit "OK".
Once you have the pristines, just add/import them into your new repository. You won't get any history since that's stored on the server, but it's unclear if that's a deal-breaker for you.
