2011/8/23 Dennis Jones <djo...@grassvalleysoftware.com>: >> 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.
Apparently you cannot edit the dump file with vi. It is mentioned somewhere in the SVN Book that the dump just looks like a textual file but actually it is binary. It explicitly does not recommend editing it in a text editor. (So the problem with checksums that you are facing is documented). Can you generate a dump file for a range of revisions? Looking at [1] you can specify a range of revisions to be dumped by rsvndump tool. [1] http://rsvndump.sourceforge.net/ Have you tried to compare old and new repository at revision 3186. E.g. do a checkout and compare whether files and folders all exist and are the same? Especially the files and folders touched by r3187. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko
