Re: SVN Dump Question

Greetings, Justin Connell!

>> I have a really huge repo that occupies 151 GB of space on the file system.
>> Just to give some background, there is a lot of content that gets added and
>> deleted from the repo, now we are sitting with a rev number of over 1, 500 000.
>>
>> My question is, would it be possible to take a dump of just a specified
>> path within the repo, for example if my repo is located at /path/to/repo ,
>> could I run a dump such as /path/to/repo/specific/location/in/repo ?

> No but you can take a complete dump and pipe it through svndumpfilter to
> extract out just the part you want.

To clarify, if it's unclear, you could attempt to directly pipe the dump to
filter on the fly, saving disk space for intermediate storage.
Although, it's not the one failsafe process, I'm afraid.

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WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru) 16.02.2010, <20:01>
Sorry for my terrible english...