I am trying to use svndumpfilter to remove specific files and directories from a repository dump, but I can't seem to remove all of them.
Some of the files are, for example: /specs/[01234] product x spec.pdf There are other files in other top-level directories, but they all have that "[xxxxx]" prefix. There are also some directories I'm filtering out such as: /results/RST-0001 (v0.01) #001 I created a text file to list these excluded path prefixes. I enter each directory into it verbatim, but for the files I just enter the prefix up to and including the "[01234]" part (to catch any moves, renames, etc). So my "excludes.txt" contains something like /specs/[01234] ...bunch of similar path prefixes /results/RST-0001 (v0.01) #001 ...bunch of similar path prefixes I use 'svnadmin dump' to dump the repository contents, and then run svndumpfilter exclude --targets "excludes.txt" < repo-01.dump > repo-02.dump 2> filter.log Unfortunately, only the directories (the second kind of entries in my 'excludes.txt') seem to get filtered. Looking in 'filter.log', there's no mention of removing the files starting with "[xxxxx]", but it does explicitly say that the other directories were removed (although it doesn't list all the files under them). Loading the resulting dump file into a repository, the files are certainly still there, but the directories aren't. I've also tried putting a "*" on the end of each line and using the "--pattern" argument, but the files are still not filtered out. So how do I get svndumpfilter to get rid of these files from my repository? Each dump/load cycle takes about seven hours, so I'm not really able to try a lot of trial and error. All of this is done on Windows Server 2003. Versions of both svnadmin and svndump are 1.7.5 (r1336830), and they're the binaries that come with VisualSVN server 2.5.5. Please CC me on replies. — Jason Heeris
