Andreas Stieger wrote on Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:57:26 +0000: > Hello, > > > On 4 Nov 2014, at 08:15, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am working on a tool that will extract data from svn dumps (such as > > produced by `svnadmin dump` and `svnrdump`). > > You will probably find the API, bindings and tools support for loaded > repositories much more complete and suitable for your project for most tasks > except those specifically designed to manipulate dumps. >
For a specific example, see the APIs used by 'svnadmin load'. > What are you trying to achieve? > > > I would like to make sure I can handle all kinds of cases, both common and > > corner cases (not error cases such as malformed dumps). Is there a sample > > repo or sample dump file that I can use? I would like it to include as many > > types of flows as possible (add/copy/delete/move for both files and > > directories, merges of various kinds, branches, etc.) while also keeping > > the total amount of revisions and files low to aid in debugging. Probably > > just one or two revisions with each type of flow (or combinations of flows > > if they need special handling when coming together in a single revision). > > These can be trivially created from many public repositories or one > specifically created/scripted by you for this purpose. The repositories created by the test suite should cover a good amount of corner cases (run 'make check' and see subversion/tests/cmdline/svn-test-work/repositories/). The reference documentation is the documentation of svn_delta_editor_t in the C API. Daniel
