On Jun 17, 2011, at 24:59 , Geoff Hoffman wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Bruno Antunes <bema_at_dei.uc.pt> wrote:
> Hi,
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> As part of the work of my PhD thesis I need to load the ASF Subversion repository into my own local repository in order to mine and extract information from the repository without overloading the ASF servers.
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> I have downloaded the repository dump and started loading it into my own repository. But the repository is huge (~45GB), and loading it using 'svnadmin load' will take me days (~15).
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> I tried 'svndumpfilter' to filter out some projects but I get the error 'svndumpfilter: Unsupported dumpfile version: 3'. I'm using 'svndumpfilter' version 1.6.12. Is there any way to overcome this error?
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> Do you know any faster way to load the dump file or to filter out some projects/revisions so I can speed up the process?
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> Thank you in advance.
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> Best regards,
> Bruno Antunes
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> Just a thought... Do you need the revision history or only the current (head) revision?
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> Guessing if you do not need the revision history then it will be much smaller and faster to svn export their-stuff -r HEAD
I need the entire revision history, because I need to extract historical information from the repository.
But I could use the revision history from specific projects only, I don't need the entire repository, which contains all the ASF projects. The problem is I can filter these projects in the dump file.
Best regards,
Bruno Antunes
Received on 2011-06-17 02:09:01 CEST