Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:32:02PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
>>
>> Having a way to do this with svnsync and svndumptool would already be
>> very useful. It would at least give some assurance to svn admins that
>> these things are 'repairable'. Being able to fix a live repository
>> would of course be even better :-).
>
> Editing dump files has always been the approach to fixing up mistakes in
> history. So I don't think we need a change in the FS backends. Instead
> we need better dump file editing capabilities. svndumptool might go
> part of the way. But ideally this would be built into svndumpfilter or
> a new offical tool that edits dump files (rather than just filtering
> nodes from a dumpfile).

I agree with Stefan. I would suggest investing effort in better dump
file tools. Remember the tool that Eric Raymond contributed?

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/server-side/svncutter/svncutter

Perhaps this sort of support could be added to that tool.

He also has his reposurgeon tool that does not operate on dump files
but git fast-import streams:

http://freecode.com/projects/reposurgeon

Maybe should be looking at better ways to interact with that format so
we can benefit from tools created around it?

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/