Questions tagged [svndump]
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How can I combine a series of partial svn dumps into a single repository?
I'm trying to recover a remote Subversion repository onto my local machine. I do not have direct access to the server to run shell commands, but I do have full svn permissions on the repository itself.
Due to some kind of issue we have yet to…

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subversion : Moving a particular repository content to another repository (Finally i have to delete old reopository for security reasons)
I want to keep a particular folder with all revisions before deleting the current repository from my system for security reasons (means i don't want other informations of the repository, but a particular folder).. So i am thinking of creating a new…
Elavarasan
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Move Subversion repository without history
There are a lot of posts on moving a Subversion history with version history but i am looking to do something different.
Basically we have a repository that has been used as a proof of concept and we want to archive this. However we want to create a…

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How to commit (not load!) an svn dump?
I have my own SVN server. But I need to move a project from it to another one, which is not under my administration. I know you can load a dump and this is simple if you have access to it, but I don't. So...
Is it possible to commit a dump (a number…

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How to update an svn dump
Im using reposurgon which reads svn dump's, created simply by:
svnadmin dump /svnroot/my-repo > svn_dump
However I need to update this file because we are still committing to the repository and re-creating the entire file each time is quite time…

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svndumpfilter - unsupported dumpfile version
I', trying to migrate a part of my SVN repository to new location. I dumped the whole repository and now try to filter out my folder of interest:
$ svndumpfilter include sandwiches < dumpfile > filtered-dumpfile
But then I got following…

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java lib to parse SVN dump files?
Is there a Java parser for SVN dump files, similar to svndumpfilter? I know that svnkit has such a script, but I did not find an API documentation or an example for actually reading the content of the dumpfile.
I am writing a Java app that has to…

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svnadmin dump of text only, without binary files
It is possible to filter the SVN dump, generated by svndamin dump, so it will not included encoded binary data, just the text deltas and data?
I want to have a dump of an existing large SVN repositories, but only of the code. I have no interest in…

Little Bobby Tables
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How to extract branches extending trunk from a SVN repository to a new repository with history
I've googled that problem quite a bit , but didn't find what I need.
I've a repository that looks like this
/Project_A
+- trunk
+- branches
+- Version_1
+- Version_2
+- 1st_Custom_version_for_customer_A
+-…

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How to take SVN Dump revision wise in fedora
I am new user and first time using SVN, i don't know how to take SVN dump revision wise.any one please help me.

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SVNDumpFilter changing paths before adding them?
I'm using svndumpfilter to extract single projects from a larger repo and import them into their own repo. Something like this:
svndumpfilter include --drop-empty-revs --renumber-revs Trunk/Source/Project1 < full.dump > Project1.dump
It worked okay…

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VisualSVN Corrupt representation after deleting bad commit
After following https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/visualsvn/2LpBN8qtEfM
The below procedure describes how to “undo” the last commit to an svn
repository (fsfs backend) in an extreme case: (Please test it
thoroughly on a “test” repo in your…

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Can dump file version be specified with svnrdump?
I need to create a dump file of a network repository. I'd like to do this using the network friendly svn tool, svnrdump as opposed to the regular svndump. However, I also need to use the svndumpfilter tool as there is much in this repo which I do…

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Why is the compressed Subversion dump file larger than the original?
We are using SVN 1.7 on Solaris 10. Recently we've introduced compressed, incremental backups.
$ svnadmin dump --quiet --incremental --revision 0:30700 /path/to/repo > /path/to/dump
$ gzip -1 /path/to/dump
The final gzipped dump file is larger…

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SVN Dump size confusion
Can someone please educate me, when i run a full dump on our repo using the following command
svnadmin dump /repo > backup.dump
This dump file is around 90GB
if i do a dump file with the following command on the same repo
svnadmin dump /repo -r…

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