Re: Delete a File Throughout Revisions

Paul Gross <paul@grosss.net> writes:

> So if I want to remove a file called temp.txt from a dump file called
> svn_dump, what's wrong with this command?
>
> cat svn_dump | svndumpfilter exclude temp.txt > svn_dump_new

$ svndumpfilter help exclude
exclude: usage: svndumpfilter exclude PATH_PREFIX...
 
Filter out nodes with given prefixes from dumpstream.

... you're not giving a prefix. All of the paths in the
dump-file-stream are absolute. So you need to filter out the
*absolute* path to your file.

Take a read of the dumpfile.... get a feel for it.

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Received on Fri Oct 10 23:24:14 2003