Re: removing stuff from repository, permanently

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.

Brilliant!

But, maybe it should be a real filter, i.e., take stdin:

svnadmin dump old-svn | svnlogfilter --excludes=/clients | svnadmin load svn

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Received on Thu Mar 6 19:16:43 2003