> I tried to edit a 5 Gb file on a Linuxserver we have with vi, it took some
> 30 minutes to open the file but it did work!
>
> The format is quite simple : a revision starts with the string :
>
> Revision-number:
>
> Just delete all the lines until the next
>
> Revision-number:
>
>
> And the revision is removed from the dump. I am not quite sure if you need
> to renumber the revisions afterwards though, but I
> don't think so.
>
> There is a problem though if what you delete is referenced later on in the
> dump, then the load will fail.
Unfortunately, this did not work. I was able to split the file into
smaller, editable pieces, cut out the bad revision, and paste it all back
together. However, when I attempted to start loading at the revision
following the bad one, I got checksum mismatches. So I tried again with a
new repository and tried to load a new dump file with everything in it
except the bad revision (so it started from 0 again), and this time it
failer even earlier than before, but again with a checksum mismatch. Ugh.
Subversion is a great tool overall, but getting this particular process to
work has been utterly frustrating and ridiculously slow, not to mention
error-prone, with no real explanation for the failing behaviors.
- Dennis
Received on 2011-08-23 17:39:28 CEST