Re: Thoughts and open questions on patch/dump unification

C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>:
> You wanna talk about kludges? Let's talk about kludges.
> svndumpfilter is kludge. Nice itch, wrong scratch.

Heh. I had that reaction when I read about svndumpfilter in the book. Nice
to know it's not just me.

> That said, you are correct to say that it is not true that a dumpfile
> must be applied to an empty repository. As you noted, incremental
> dumps (ala 'svnadmin dump -rX:Y --incremental') do not contain a full
> "history diff", or at least that "diff" is not against an empty
> history.

Correction accepted. First premise, revised: A *full* dump can be viewed as
a history diff applied to the empty tree.

Hmmm, the man page hints that running a load against a *nonempty*
repository may actually do the right thing (that is, apply the
revisions in the dummp file to the repo).

If that's true, we're about 80% of the way to repo sync right now! The
remaining issues are packaging, policy, and how we cope with incremental
dumpfiles that don't apply cleanly.

-- 
		Eric S. Raymond
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