Giorgio F. Signorini wrote on Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:29:52 +0100:
> Hm ... I just found that in r100 I did a couple of other changes to
> the repository other than adding the big unwanted file, so the recipe
> I had in mind is not an option.
>
Are you aware of svndumpfilter?
> I am left with your suggestion, svnsync. I thought it was used just to
> mirror a repository, do you mean it can be used to make a copy of a
> repo with some changes? What versione of SVN do I need (currently
> using 1.6.12)?
Any version that supports svnsync. (So: you need to serve the
repository with 1.4+.)
> Some users have pre-1.5 subversion; will they be able
> to checkout from the new, modified repository (if created with
> --pre-1.5-compatible)?
>
--pre-1.5-compatible matters in two ways: (a) between the on-disk
repository and the server program reading it; (b) in whether the
repository supports certain kinds of efficient mergeinfo
representations. The latter should be documented in the 1.5 release
notes.
> Giorgio
>
>
> > From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de>
> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:27:55 +0200
> >
> > Your recipe should work, assuming the file was added in r100 and never
> > changed or copied afterwards. You may pass --deltas to 'svnadmin dump'
> > (no reason not to). It'll offset r101:r200 revnums by one in the new
> > repository.
> >
> > Another way is to use svnsync with path-based authz blocking the file
> > (and all its copied) from the sync user.
> >
> > Giorgio F. Signorini wrote on Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 19:33:17 +0100:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I need to delete a file permanently from my repository, since it was
> > > added by mistake and is very big. I understand this is not a very easy
> > > thing to do, and is related to the project of an 'svn obliterate'
> > > command.
> > >
> > > I seem to have found a simple workaround for my problem, and I would
> > > very much like to share it for comments.
> > >
> > > Suppose the current revision is 200 and the big file was added in rev
> > > 100. I can use the dump / load scheme of svnadmin, taking care in
> > > skipping revision 100 during the process:
> > >
> > > svnadmin dump -r1:99 oldrepos > rev.1-99
> > > svnadmin dump -r101:200 --incremental oldrepos > rev.101-200
> > >
> > > svnadmin create newrepos
> > > svnadmin load newrepos < rev.1-99
> > > svnadmin load newrepos < rev.101-200
> > >
> > >
> > > I only wonder if the "--incremental" option will work even when
> > > merging non-contiguous revisions. Please note that in revision 100
> > > only the big unwanted file was added.
> > >
> > > Thank you for your help
> > >
> > > -- GFS
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Dr. Giorgio F. SIGNORINI, PhD
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