svnadmin load errors: file already exists

I'm trying to use vss2svn to convert a large repository from, well, vss to svn.

Vss2svn ran fine, and I then used svnadmin load to load the resulting dump file into a new repository.

I'm getting a very large number of "file already exists" error on the load. About one every build or so for a repository that's about 5 years old - probably something to do with their old build process. I have been using svndumpfilter to filter out the offending files entirely, but it's a slow process - I have to run the filter and load which takes about an hour, I get one error, I filter that file out, I run it again, an hour later I get another error.

Is there any way of either
1. Using wildcards in svndumpfilter - I've seen a patch out there and feature requests, but it doesn't seem to have made it into the release yet, I'm not up to building svn myself, and I can't find a binary for svndumpfilter including the patch.
2. Asking svnadmin load to ignore errors, and just skip onto the next revision

Thanks in advance,

Ben Curthoys

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Received on Tue Oct 2 01:16:20 2007