Revive svn+http(s) URLs support (issue94) Telling svn from mercurial repository automatically is not always possible, or at least not seamlessly. Let 'http://repo.com/svn' be an svn repository, protected with basic authentication. Trying to clone it directly does something like: 1- Open it like a mercurial repository: * send between command, ask for credentials, fail * fallback to static-http, ask for crendentials two times, fail 2- Open it like an svn repository Mercurial [auth] facility is helpful here, but few people know about it, and it may seem weird to store svn credentials in mercurial configuration. An svn-like password manager would not help either because all connections attempts in [1] fail and it's unlikely we would store credentials in this situation. Instead, we can clone 'svn+http://repo.com/svn', which will skip step [1].

#!/bin/sh

RSVN="`pwd`/rsvn.py"
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
mkdir temp
cd temp

svnadmin create repo
svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc

cd wc
mkdir trunk branches
cd trunk
for a in alpha beta gamma ; do
    echo $a > $a
done
cd ..
svn add *
svn ci -m 'initial'

svn up
svn cp trunk branches/test
svn ci -m 'branch'

svn up
echo foo >> branches/test/alpha
svn ci -m 'Mod.'

cd ..
echo rdelete trunk > tmp
echo rcopy branches/test trunk >> tmp
python $RSVN --message=blah --username=evil `pwd`/repo < tmp

svnadmin dump repo > ../replace_trunk_with_branch.svndump