How to Move an entire repository

[btd]

Is it possible to "move" an entire repository from one REPO to another? If so, how can this be done as in my experience I can only "move" wihtin the same REPO.

[btd]

Note: I am on 5.0version of Vault.

[lbauer]

You can export folders from one repository and import them into another with Vault Folder Export\Import. The Vault FolderExportImport tool is in the Vault GUI Client directory. Documentation is also in the Vault GUI client directory in a .chm file.

Note: this may not work if you have any obliterates in the repository. Obliterate permanently removes history, and since the Export\Import tool needs to recreate history, an obliterate can cause it to fail.

[btd]

Thanks
Can you make it an enhancement to add this functionality to the Vault Client Move method?

[lbauer]

Do you want the history to move as well?

[btd]

Yes.

[lbauer]

It's fairly complex to move all history, because items may have been shared, moved, branched, etc. I don't think there's a way to move with all history without going through history one version at a time, like the Folder Export does.

We are hoping to find ways to handle Obliterates so that Exports aren't stopped because of them.

[gogu]

I have noticed that if you export a folder that was shared and then branched, it looses the history before branching. Is it possible to have the history before branching, too, after exporting and importing to another repository? In the initial repository it still has it.