On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > There's now a new tool located in subversion/svnrdump. We have > developed it over the last few weeks, and we feel that it is mature > enough to announce. Although it has not been tested extensively, we > would like to encourage you to try it out and give us feedback so we > can improve it. > > So what is svnrdump? It is a tool to produce a dumpfile from a remote > repository without having to mirror the whole thing on the hard disk, > as well as load a dumpfile into a remote repository. Although it's > fundamentally different from the `svnadmin` tool on the inside, it can > be thought of as providing a remote `svnadmin dump | load` > functionality. It currently only works with dumpfile v3, and we intend > to keep it that way. > > svnrdump is meant to be a lightweight high-performance tool that is > intended to be useful to both server admins and developers of other > versioning systems looking to import/ export revision history from > Subversion. The motivation for the project actually arises from my > recent GSoC project, git-remote-svn; the Git developers are writing in > support for seamless interoperability with Subversion. > > Anyway, we hope you find the tool useful; do test it on your own > repositories and file issues/ feature requests. > > -- Ram > This is exactly a tool I need! I wonder if the dev team has mind-reading abilities... Is this command going to be supported in the default installation from now? or is it a "stand-alone" utility that installs separately? In case of the former - will there be a 1.6.13 release that will include it? In case of the latter - any windows binaries out there? Thanks, Itamar.
