Hi, I'm doing some work on an old, bloated repo to get rid of some erroneous commits to reduce the disk size. I've done this a few years ago with success, but I'm currently getting into an error situation that I don't know how to handle.
I'm running something like "svadmin dump | svndumpfilter <lots of exclude patterns and an exclude file>" This works fine until I get to Committing revision 100000 as 100000 svndumpfilter: E200003: Missing merge source path 'project/branches/somebranch/idioticdir-i-will-filter'; try with --skip-missing-merge-sources I do understand what the message means, but I cannot for the life of me figure out which commit it is that is causing the problem. I do not want to skip the merge source, I want to add the place it has been copied to into the filterfile. Revision 100000 has nothing to do with that branch and neither has 100001, so I'm guessing a that is a stderr/stdout type of mismatch in the printouts and the error happens later than 100000. I first tried to see that nothing is done on that specific branch that I am looking at and nope, that branch is "finished" at this point. Then I have tried to look 200 revisions into the future to see if I can find a copy operation (basically do diff --summarize and grep for "idioticdir-i-will-filter") and I can't find it there either). Tried playing around with svnlook and I fail there as well, but I'm not really used to this one and might be missing some nice option. I am running out of ideas how to find the new place it is copied to and add it to my filterfile. Note: I cannot have a globbing filter on the name of the directory since that appears as a valid part of the project in many other places. Any ideas why it is not printing both source and target of the copy, which is what I have seen other times with "copy source error"? Any ideas on how to find the commit that is eluding me will be greatly appreciated. Note: using svn 1.14
