Perhaps the revprop load operation was designed to support some kind of 'refresh' of the revprops after an earlier dump/sync. In that case it might make sense to have a specific operation, as that would really change the operation to something completely else.
Bert
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From: Markus Schaber <m.schaber_at_codesys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 8:25:58 AM
To: Daniel Shahaf; dev_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: RE: 'svnadmin load-revprops' as first-level command?
Hi,
From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> I was going through the 1.10 release notes and I found the new load-revprops
> / dump-revprops subcommands:
>
> https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.10#svnadmin-revprops
> New svnadmin dump-revprops and svnadmin load-revprops subcommands
>
> […] svnadmin dump-revprops will save the current values of all
> revision properties to a dump file. svnadmin load-revprops can be
> used to set revision properties in a repository to the values saved
> in a dump file.
>
> I don't dispute the need for such functionality, but is a separate top-level
> command the right home for it? I would have expected 'load-revprops' to be
> spelled "svnadmin load --only-revprops" or even "svndumpfilter revprops-only
> | svnadmin load".
>
> The rationale is that 'load' and 'load-revprops' take exactly the same data
> format and manipulate it in exactly the same way.
I guess that, especially for the "dump" case, "dump-revprops" is (or should be)
much more efficient than a "dump" piped through "svndumpfilter". For "load",
the additional overhead will be smaller, but still there. So I think this
functionality should be implemented in svnadmin itself.
Note, however, that I wouldn't mind it being an "--only-revprops" option to
the existing "load" and "dump" subcommands instead of a new subcommand.
And I also don't oppose the idea of "svndumpfilter revprops-only", which
clearly has its own use cases. :-)
Best regards
Markus Schaber
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