Eiren Smith wrote on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 at 23:24 -0000: > On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Eiren Smith wrote: > > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:49:44AM -0400, Eiren Smith wrote: > > > > Sir: > > > > > > > > Thanks for your reply. I'll read those references you cited. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > P.S. Other files may also be missing from the revprops/ dir, not > > > > > > just 7437 -- If I'm willing to lose commit messages, can I live > > > > > > without some revprops/ files? > > > > > > > > > > You should recreate the revprops for all revisions. > > > > > > > > I have emails messages (from SubversionNotify) containing the commit > > > > comments for six of seven of those revisions. If I can rebuild the > > > > repository with some revprops/ files missing, I can edit the > > > > comments later. Will this work? > > > > > > Sure, that will work. You'll need to do a manual commit of the changes > > > made in lost revisions, and then tweak the revision properties after the > > > commit is done. See also the 'svnadmin setrevprop' command, which will > > > help you to set the revision properties (svn:date, svn:author, and > > > svn:log). > > > > > > Stefan > > > > Thank you. > > > > I won't be able to accurately mimic the seven missing changes as most of > > them were for binary files (project documentation and some DLLs). > > > > Instead, is there a way to simply say "All future revisions that depend > > upon these seven revisions are dead/null" so I can piece the repo back > > together with just that minor loss? > > > > Thanks, > > > > /eiren > > > Anyone: > > Any ideas about how to handle this since I can't mimic the changes to the > binary files modified in the missing revs? >
Patch svnadmin to skip those particular files (hard-code them) when parsing a dumpfile? > Sorry if nudging this is bad form for this list. > > /eiren >
