[Savannah-cvs] [AdminSvnImport] import SVN repo

[Beuc]

Here's how to import an SVN repository.

Make sure that SVN is already enabled for the project.

You need to ask a SVN dump to the project admin as explained at 
SvnImportExistingRepo.

Once the user has provided it, login at Savannah.
Since the process can be long, it's recommended to start it in a screen::

 screen
 vserver vcs-noshell enter
 cd /root
 wget http://url/to/myproject.dump.bz2
 bzcat myproject.dump.bz2 | svadmin load /srv/svn/myproject/
 rm myproject.dump.bz2

Sometimes a user may provided a tar of his local svn repository. In this case, 
please ask a proper svn dump (produced by `svnadmin dump`). Using a direct tar 
is not recommended because we may not be using the same versions of SVN, and 
sometimes the format changes with the new versions of SVN.

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