Re: Faking obliteration

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
>
>
>>For now, all you can do is dump and load. Use svndumpfilter to
>>'screen out' the bad path when you're reloading.
>
>
> That sounds very promising, thanks!
>
> Is it true that svndumpfilter is nowhere documented?
>

Well.. `svndumpfilter help` is the only docs I'm aware of. You should also
make yourself familiar with the dumpfile format so as to understand what
exactly you're doing. Read notes/fs_dumprestore.txt in the source.

Also read this thread:
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-03/1520.shtml

The svndumpfilter usage is pretty simple - to filter out some file or
directory from repository you only need exact path where it was first committed.

Then you do svnadmin dump repos | svndumpfilter exclude path/to/ >newdump.

Then you load newdump into a separate repo and triple-check that it's ok.

This can get pretty complicated if you moved the file around the repo, then
later created other file with the same path in repo, etc, etc.

Svndumpfilter will catch copies of the file, but i think it will also catch
unrelated file with the same name in a later revision.

In this case you'll have to separately svnadmin dump and filter several
revision ranges.

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