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Thanks,
Blair
Charles Butterfield wrote:
> While struggling with other issues noted on this list (see aside at
> end), I started looking at the svn dump format and have a couple of
> questions
>
> 1) When is node-action "replace" used and what are the implications
> thereof? Is it simply used instead of "add" when the indicated path
> already exists (presumably via "svn move" or "svn copy")? Or is it ever
> used instead of a "change" action? For that matter, would anything go
> wrong if "change" were used instead of replace?
>
> 2) Is there any documentation on the dump file format with more
> extensive discourse that the document "dump-load-format.txt"? Or
> alternatively, is there other design documentation that discusses the
> details of the various node-actions?
>
> ASIDE - What is motivating this is trying to understand how hard it
> would be to hack up a dump file to address some of the problems
> encountered in deleting old history, an in:
>
> svnadmin dump repo -r2000:9999 | svnadmin load virgin-repo
>
> which complains if any of revs 2000-9999 were copied from revs prior to
> 2000.
>
> Thanks for any insight,
> -- Charlie
>
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