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> > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 08:13, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> >
> > > A dump/load of the database won't work, as it can't
> filter out old
> > > revisions. Worse, a dump/load of a 500+ gigabyte
> repository would
> > > cause a LOT of downtime.
> >
> > Well, it can:
> >
> > dump: usage: svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH [-r LOWER[:UPPER]]
> > [--incremental]
> >
> > Valid options:
> > -r [--revision] arg : specify revision number ARG (or
> > X:Y range)
> >
> > svnadmin dump -r 100:HEAD /path/to/the/repo
> >
> > should do the job of selecting just the latest revisions.
>
> I think I knew this, but my concern would be obliterating
> portions of the repository that we wanted to keep. For
> instance, source code changes are cheap (in terms of disk
> usage). I wouldn't want to kill any of the history for those files.
>
> Either way, thank you. I need to investigate this approach
> some more to learn of its strengths and limitations.
>
> Josh
>
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Received on Tue Apr 12 17:27:07 2005