title: SVN move directories, not losing history
body: <p>We have the plan to change our modularized application at work from <em>Ant</em> to <em>Maven</em>. The requirements to that process would be:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>my colleagues can go on working without being involved in that task</li>
  <li>not losing any SVN history</li>
  <li>merge the whole task at once into trunk </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Could someone confirm this procedure?</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>create a branch in SVN</li>
  <li>create new directories in <code>src</code> the maven style <code>src/main/java</code> and add it to SVN</li>
  <li>move all source files with SVN, something like <code>svn mv src/mypackages src/main/java/mypackages</code></li>
  <li>create the pom.xml, ect.</li>
  <li>merge changes from colleagues to my branch </li>
  <li>at the end, merge my branch back to trunk</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>