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Re: removing stuff from repository, permanently

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-03-06 17:53:35 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:26, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> > > $ svnadmin dump old-svn > dumpfile
> > > $ svnadmin load --excludes="/clients" svn < dumpfile
> > > $ svnadmin load --includes="/clients" svn-clients < dumpfile
> >
> > I am concerned that there is no limit to the variety of transformations
> > people might eventually want to apply to the loader. To limit how much
> > complexity goes into "svnadmin load", we might want to put this stuff
> > into a separate log filter command:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Ooh, wow, what a great idea! How Unix-y!
>
> +1

Cha-ching! +1 here, too.

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