Re: removing stuff from repository, permanently

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> svnadmin dump old-svn > dumpfile
> svnlogfilter --excludes=/clients dumpfile | svnadmin load svn
> svnlogfilter --includes=/clients dumpfile | svnadmin load svn-clients
>
> svnlogfilter can then get as complicated as it wants, without
> interfering with the robustness and maintainability of the basic dump
> and load operations.

Let me follow up to myself.

Remember that our dumpfile parser is already abstracted. That means
that the standalone 'filter' program simply needs to implement a new
vtable for the dumpfile parser -- one which filters appropriately, and
outputs the same dumpfile with changed or missing information. It's
much like running 'sed' on a stream.

Very elegant.

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Received on Thu Mar 6 17:47:41 2003