As suggested in the subversion book, we are using mod branches
for development. So developers basically do
svn copy http://host/repos/product/trunk http://host/repos/product/mods/name
then work locally with http://host/repos/product/mods/name and
merge it back into the trunk using something like
svn co http://host/repos/product/trunk
svn merge -rstart:end http://host/repos/product/mods/name@end trunk
With a lot of developers, a lot of stuff piles up quickly under
http://host/repos/product/mods, so we would like to clean up
every now and then by dumping the repository and running it
though "svndumpfilter include product/trunk" to get rid of
everything else.
Unfortunately, this does not work. For files that were created in
a mod branch and merged back into the trunk, svndumpfilter
says "svn: Invalid copy source path" and aborts.
I understand that it is impossible to keep the entire history
intact, if the file originates from a mod branch that is not included.
But not including the mod branch is the entire point of the exercise. ;-)
So it would be nice if svndumpfilter would continue, converting the
"merge with history" into a "import without history".
Is there a switch to svndumpfilter that allows me to do that?
Or is it a missing feature?
Thanks for any hint,
Carsten.
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Received on Tue Jul 19 12:44:25 2005