RE: How to compare two repositories?

Andy Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Clyde Jones
> <cjones_at_exelixis.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> How would I compare two repositories to get the differences?
>>
>> I am upgrading a repository from 1.1.1 to 1.4.6 and I had some
>> problems with a file that was checked in with a control character
>> as a name. I did incremental dumps (we have ~52000 revisions),
>> fixed the problem file and loaded into a new repository.
>> That seemed to work well, but I want to compare the entire revision
>> history of the two repositories to make sure only the changes I
>> wanted are there.
>>
>> I tried svnlook tree for both but the order of the files is
>> different so that comparison failed.
>>
>> Should I just do a dump of all the revisions of both repositories
>> and do a diff, or is there a better way? The dump file is ~7GB so
>> that will be a long and painful diff.
>
> Could you write the log (verbose) out to a textfile for each
> repository and then perform a diff on those?
>

You mean something like svn log svn://repo1 > oldlog.txt ?

That only gives me the log messages and not the actual files that were
added. I want to make sure the revisions are correct. Mostly I want to
make sure the incremental revisions were applied in the correct order
and I didn't bungle the changes.

I suppose I could write a script that dumped 'svnlook -r $commit#
changed /repository' and compare those. Does 'svnlook changed' give an
ordered list, or are the changes random?

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Clyde Jones
R&D Informatics
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