When I want multiple options on svndumpfilter, I chain
them together, as it's easier for me to reason through
what happens.
svndump | svndumpfilter | svndumpfilter | svndumpfilter > file.dump
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Res Pons wrote:
> Erik
>
> Thank you. The entire repo is huge and I did do a complete dump earlier
> piping into svndumpfilter which caused another nightmare. Here's a question
> for you: Can I use both options of 'exclude' and 'include' of svndumpfilter
> simultaneously? I tried both options in the same command and the result
> wasn't pretty. The instruction in the manual is sorta ambiguous as to
> whether I can only use each option one at a time or at the same time. Do you
> happen to know?
>
> Thanks
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Erik Hemdal" <erik@comprehensivepower.com>
> To: "'Res Pons'" <pons32@hotmail.com>,<users@subversion.tigris.org>
> Subject: RE: svn dump & load continued
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:09:04 -0400
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Res Pons [mailto:pons32@hotmail.com]
> . . . .
>> svnadmin dump myrepo -r 42710:HEAD > revs-42710-head.dumpfile
>>
>> Everything before & after the following error executes OK,
>> please see error.
>> Is there any solution, should I start my dump @42768 after
>> the errors and
>> will I be missing history, of course?
>>
> . . . .
>
> * Dumped revision 42765.
>> WARNING: Referencing data in revision 42647, which is older
>> than the oldest
>> WARNING: dumped revision (42710). Loading this dump into an empty
>> repository
>> WARNING: will fail.
>> * Dumped revision 42766.
>> * Dumped revision 42767.
>> WARNING: Referencing data in revision 42708, which is older
>> than the oldest
>> WARNING: dumped revision (42710). Loading this dump into an empty
>> repository
>> WARNING: will fail.
>
> Hello Res,
>
> Here's a guess. It looks like part of your repository at R42710 (maybe in
> one of the projects you don't care about) has a file that was last changed
> at R42708. Since you're not backing up R42708, that file isn't going to be
> retrievable: you'll have the delta at R42710, but you won't have the base
> file you need.
>
> I don't know whether you'll be able to retrieve the project you need,
> because you can't know from this which specific files are affected.
>
> Maybe if you take a complete dump and then use svndumpfilter you can do what
> you want. In any case then, you'd at least have a complete dump to recover
> from if your work goes bad for some reason.
>
> Erik
>
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