obliterate revisions

I have a fairly large repo for which I want to flush all of the history. The key factor is to avoid having to do a new checkout and use existing working copies. Does anybody see any blatant issues with the following tasks? I was able to get this to work and all appears fine through initial testing.

myrepo is the existing repo with 37 revisions. I want to obliterate all history up to revision 33. Here are the commands to flush all history up to r33 and hopefully avoid a new checkout and allow the users to keep the existing working copies.

   svnadmin dump -r1:33 myrepo >myrepo_1to33.dump

   svnadmin dump -r34:37 myrepro >myrepo_34_37.dump

   cat myrepo_1to33.dump | svndumpfilter exclude /
>myrepo_empty_to_r33.dump

   mv myrepo myrepo _orig

   svnadmin create myrepo

   svnadmin load --force-uuid myrepo <myrepo_empty_to_r33.dump

   svnadmin load --force-uuid myrepo < myrepo_34_37.dump

Then run 'svn switch' on your working copy which should
update the .svn folders.

Thanks,
Jon

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Received on 2008-03-27 20:02:24 CET