svndumpfilter --skip-missing-merge-sources fails

Hi list!

I want to completely remove path/a from my repository using svndumpfilter exclude. Unfortunately, there's one revision where path/a/stuff is moved to path/b/stuff. As expected, svndumpfilter exits with an error message:

svndumpfilter: E200003: Invalid copy source path '/path/a/stuff'

Now, there's this promising option --skip-missing-merge-sources, about which the manual says:

"Skips merge sources that have been removed as part of the filtering. Without this option, svndumpfilter will exit with an error if the merge source for a retained path is removed by filtering."

From this text, I'm expecting svndumpfilter to successfully filter out path/a and to not complain about the missing merge source when adding path/b/stuff. Unfortunately, adding this option doesn't change the least bit. svndumpfilter still displays the same error message at the same revision.

Here's my command line:

svndumpfilter --drop-empty-revs --renumber-revs --skip-missing-merge-sources exclude path/a/stuff < in.dump > out.dump

I also tried adding the options after the exclude part, doesn't make a difference. Also, you may have noted the leading slash in the error message. There's no leading slash in the dump file and adding it to the command line didn't help either.

Am I misinterpreting how --skip-missing-merge-sources is supposed to work? What's wrong? Is there a workaround so that I can keep path/b/stuff without keeping path/a?

Best regards and thanks for your help,
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Received on 2012-12-29 14:08:52 CET