Re: Problem using subversion on a large repository

On Oct 22, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Purple Streak wrote:

> 2008/10/22 Felix Gilcher <felix.gilcher_at_bitextender.com>:
>>> Anyways, how did you dump that single revision? The exact command
>>> would be
>>> of interest. As far as I know, the dumpfile uses a diff format as
>>> well, so
>
> I think by default the dump actually does full versions each time.
> Take a look at
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.dump.html

Yeah well, we're sort of both right: It will only dump changed files,
but those not as a delta.

>
> in particular the --deltas option. I don't know if this is clever
> enough to reduces the copies to almost nothing but I would hope it
> would. It also depends on how the svndumpfilter works in this
> instance but I would try it and see how you go :)

svndumpfilter will not work with --delta: "There are, however,
disadvantages to using this option—deltified dump files are more CPU-
intensive to create, cannot be operated on by svndumpfilter"

>
> Also if the dump files still get too big then check out the
> --incremental option as well to split up the dump into separate files.
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cheers

felix

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