Can svndumpfilter exclude specific named nodes only ?

My understanding from the documentation is that svndumpfilter may be requested to exclude all nodes whose names have a specific prefix (ie this will exclude the named node and all its children).

My specific requirement is to exclude specific named nodes (and not their children). Is it possible to request svndumpfilter to do this ?

The reason for this is that I am using cvs2svn to convert projects that need to end up inserting files/nodes within an existing repo tree. In this case the dump file produced will include all nodes down from the root to the folder I am specifically interested in adding. This includes Root, Root/trunk, Root/tags, Root/branches, which already exist ('Root' here being just an example of the name at the top of the tree). When I attempt to load this using svnadmin load it aborts as these already exist. So I need them not to be present in the dump (or some significantly different approach).

At the moment I can manually edit them out, as there aren't many, which results in the tree as I want it (*), but I wondered if I could get svndumpfilter to do the job for me.

Regards,

Richard.

(*) Almost, but I'll ask about that separately.

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