Re: Breaking up a monolothic repository

trentbuck_at_gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:

> So then I thought to chain the two approaches. This didn't work -- the
> empty revs were not removed. I guess svndumpfilter --drop-empty-revs
> is only smart enough to drop the revs that have just *become* empty?
>
> rm -rf delete-me-3
> svnadmin create delete-me-3
> svnadmin dump delete-me-2 |
> svndumpfilter --drop-empty-revs exclude /canthappen |
> svnadmin load delete-me-3

A helpful offlist correspondent noted svn 1.8 has --drop-all-empty-revs,
so I might try building that long enough to try that option.
Received on 2013-09-10 03:59:14 CEST