Hi Richard,
On 8/3/2016 5:35 PM, Kerry, Richard wrote:
My understanding from the documentation is that svndumpfilter may be
requested to exclude all nodes whose names have a specific prefix (ie
this will exclude the named node and all its children).
My specific requirement is to exclude specific named nodes (and not
their children). Is it possible to request svndumpfilter to do this ?
The reason for this is that I am using cvs2svn to convert projects
that need to end up inserting files/nodes within an existing repo
tree. In this case the dump file produced will include all nodes down
from the root to the folder I am specifically interested in adding.
This includes Root, Root/trunk, Root/tags, Root/branches, which
already exist ('Root' here being just an example of the name at the
top of the tree). When I attempt to load this using svnadmin load it
aborts as these already exist. So I need them not to be present in
the dump (or some significantly different approach).
At the moment I can manually edit them out, as there aren't many,
which results in the tree as I want it (*), but I wondered if I could
get svndumpfilter to do the job for me.
Regards,
Richard.
(*) Almost, but I'll ask about that separately.
Atm I can think of the following way (hope I got your requirements correct):
split up the load into separate chunks.
1. import everything excluding the whole Root-node - using dumpfilter
exclude
2. import the separate child-nodes (aka: Root/branches/) using
dumpfilter include in combination with svnadmin load --parent-dir [Dir]
(aka: svnadmin load --parentdir [Dir]
Would that solve your case?
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Regards,
Stefan Hett
