Re: Remove revision range from repository

Thanks for your answer, Branko!

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 12:11:38PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 05.12.2019 10:56, Josef Wolf wrote:

> > I need to permanently remove a range of revisions from a repository, which are
> > not the latest.
> Take a look at the 'svndumpfilter' tool. It can preserve empty revisions
> in the output.

Unfortunately, svndumpfilter can do only path based filtering. Thus, I'd need
another way to "inject" such empty revisions.

> > BTW: I guess, I'd need to set the uuid to the uuid of the old repository if I
> > don'w want existing working copies to get into trouble?
>
> Any existing working copies may be in trouble in any case. A working
> copy that contains an item from a revision that you'll exclude from the
> repository will no longer be able to commit or update.

I can make sure that no WC has such revisions.

> Other working copies will be fine (if you update the UUID).

OK. Sounds good.

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Josef Wolf
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