Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-18 Thread Jan Stürtz
Hi Philip, sorry for the late reply. Thanks for your details. That helped and works fine for us. Kind regards - Jan Am 16.08.2013 11:51, schrieb Philip Martin: > Jan Stürtz writes: > >> Hi list, >> we have a quite old & grown svn repository here. With some "interesting" >> svn:mergeinfo Pro

Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Note that it is sometimes much, much faster and creates much smaller and cleaner repositories, to simply "svn export" and "svn import" the data files themselves to a new repository. You don't get the history, but a pointer to the old repository kept online in read only mode may be considered enou

Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-16 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:51:58AM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > The mergeinfo is only parsed for partial dumps, i.e. when the start > revision greater than one, as this allows the dump process to issue a > warning when the mergeinfo refers to revisions not in the dump file. > The only workaround i

Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-16 Thread Philip Martin
Jan Stürtz writes: > Hi list, > we have a quite old & grown svn repository here. With some "interesting" > svn:mergeinfo Properties. (see the diff below) > > This seems to be been allowed in earlier svn versions. > > For backup Issues svn copy worked fine for all the time, > but now we want to up

svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-16 Thread Jan Stürtz
Hi list, we have a quite old & grown svn repository here. With some "interesting" svn:mergeinfo Properties. (see the diff below) This seems to be been allowed in earlier svn versions. For backup Issues svn copy worked fine for all the time, but now we want to update our server (svn version & hard