> I tried to edit a 5 Gb file on a Linuxserver we have with vi, it took some > 30 minutes to open the file but it did work! > > The format is quite simple : a revision starts with the string : > > Revision-number: > > Just delete all the lines until the next > > Revision-number: > > > And the revision is removed from the dump. I am not quite sure if you need > to renumber the revisions afterwards though, but I > don't think so. > > There is a problem though if what you delete is referenced later on in the > dump, then the load will fail.
Unfortunately, this did not work. I was able to split the file into smaller, editable pieces, cut out the bad revision, and paste it all back together. However, when I attempted to start loading at the revision following the bad one, I got checksum mismatches. So I tried again with a new repository and tried to load a new dump file with everything in it except the bad revision (so it started from 0 again), and this time it failer even earlier than before, but again with a checksum mismatch. Ugh. Subversion is a great tool overall, but getting this particular process to work has been utterly frustrating and ridiculously slow, not to mention error-prone, with no real explanation for the failing behaviors. - Dennis
