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Re: Issues 516: "svn obliterate"

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-09-19 00:42:48 CEST

On 9/18/06, Daniel Rall <dlr@collab.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> > Jacob Atzen wrote:
> > >On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:40:03PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > >>I also don't know what happens to svnsync'd copies of repos when you do
> > >>this. That's something else for me to play with.
> > >
> > >Have you considered using rsync for mirroring the repository? I'm not
> > >sure if this is even feasible with your setup, but it could be a
> > >solution to the mirroring issue. More info is available at:
> > >
> > >http://snarfed.org/space/backup+subversion+fsfs+with+rsync
> > >
> > >Beware that this afaik only works with the FSFS backend.
> >
> > Yeah, looking at this is on my todo list -- if svnsync can't cope with
> > repos that have gone through a dump/load cycle then this is my backup plan.
>
> Using dump/load to emulate 'obliterate' for a master repository which
> is the source for a mirrored repository may or may not hork up any
> subsequent svnsync (I think "not" is more likely, if you avoid
> modifying the revnums to account for the filtered revision(s)), but it
> definitely won't propogate the 'obliterate'.
>

Yeah, as long as the revnums match it'll still sync, but there won't
be any propogation of the removed revs, since that's outside the
understanding of the tools in question.

-garrett

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