svndumpfilter generating invalid dump file format?

I am trying use svndumpfilter. I exported the repository and I am now trying to run:
svndumpfilter exclude foo < a.dmp > b.dmp

The problem is that the generated dump file, 'b.dmp', is inconsistent with the documented format (which is causing some other problems for me):
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt

The above documentation states that 'Node-path' will be the first header line of a Node record.

However, this is an example of what I'm getting:
Revision-number: 1
Prop-content-length: 186
Content-length: 186

K 8
svn:date
V 27
2006-10-11T22:12:09.613653Z
K 7
svn:log
V 73
Share project 'CampaignDirectorPOC' into 'http://test-build:7080/svn/dev'
K 10
svn:author
V 17
tim.myer_at_par3.com
PROPS-END

Node-kind: dir
Node-path: trunk
Node-action: add
Prop-content-length: 10
Content-length: 10

PROPS-END

Note that in the above example it's 2nd. In other revisions from my filtered dump it is 3rd and otherwise all over the map. The order is correct in the original dump file.

I've tried using svndumpfilter 1.8.5 on Linux and 1.8.8 on Windows.

Has anyone else come across this? I couldn't find any documented known issues/bugs on the matter. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jonathan
Received on 2014-03-18 00:13:05 CET