When you do the svnadmin dump, can you dump it to a single file, its easier to import that way. For example:
svnadmin dump /var/svn/hal/ > /User/User/svn-hal.dump

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When you do the svnadmin dump, can you dump it to a single file, its easier to import that way. For example:
svnadmin dump /var/svn/hal/ > /User/User/svn-hal.dump