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Eiren Smith wrote on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 at 10:01 -0400:
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
> > Eiren Smith wrote on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 at 23:24 -0000:
> > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Eiren Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:49:44AM -0400, Eiren Smith wrote:
> > > > > > Sir:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for your reply. I'll read those references you cited.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > P.S. Other files may also be missing from the revprops/ dir, not
> > > > > > > > just 7437 -- If I'm willing to lose commit messages, can I live
> > > > > > > > without some revprops/ files?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > You should recreate the revprops for all revisions.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have emails messages (from SubversionNotify) containing the commit
> > > > > > comments for six of seven of those revisions. If I can rebuild the
> > > > > > repository with some revprops/ files missing, I can edit the
> > > > > > comments later. Will this work?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sure, that will work. You'll need to do a manual commit of the changes
> > > > > made in lost revisions, and then tweak the revision properties after
> > > > > the
> > > > > commit is done. See also the 'svnadmin setrevprop' command, which will
> > > > > help you to set the revision properties (svn:date, svn:author, and
> > > > > svn:log).
> > > > >
> > > > > Stefan
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > I won't be able to accurately mimic the seven missing changes as most of
> > > > them were for binary files (project documentation and some DLLs).
> > > >
> > > > Instead, is there a way to simply say "All future revisions that depend
> > > > upon these seven revisions are dead/null" so I can piece the repo back
> > > > together with just that minor loss?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > /eiren
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone:
> > >
> > > Any ideas about how to handle this since I can't mimic the changes to the
> > > binary files modified in the missing revs?
> > >
> >
> > Patch svnadmin to skip those particular files (hard-code them) when
> > parsing a dumpfile?
> >
>
> Sorry, I don't understand. Could you expand on that?
>
IIRC, you were suggested to dump the repository (in parts) in order to
recover it. Normally, if you just load these dumpfiles, it will error
at some point due to the missing revisions (which weren't dumped). So
I suggested to recompile svnadmin with a one-off patch that changes the
'svnadmin load' logic to ignore anything in the dumpfiles that touches
one of the files touched in those seven revisions.
Essentially, look up what paths were touched in those seven revisions,
and then patch load.c so that, when it parses from the dumpfile an entry
concerning one of those files, the entry gets ignored (dropped on the
floor) and will not be forwarded to the FS layer as normal (with the aim
of making a commit to the repository-being-loaded-into).
Clearer?
> /eiren
>
> > > Sorry if nudging this is bad form for this list.
> > >
> > > /eiren
> > >
Received on 2010-06-18 20:54:34 CEST