Excellent. Thanks for the detailed information. It sounds like you've filled in lots of edge details.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg Stein <[email protected]>: > > Gotcha. How is that different from "svndumpfilter include" ? > > > > Or maybe the latter was created after you started svncutter? > > I think it was; svncutter dates back to 2009, possibly earlier. > > Another function it has is test load reduction. There's a 'strip' command > that replaces all content blobs with small unique cookies, leaving all > node structure and metadata intact. > > This is very handy when some metadata malformation triggers a bug and > the person reporting wants to send me a smallest-possible repo that will > reproduce it. > > Usually the test load can be made still smaller with a 'reduce' operation. > This, essentially, drops all nodes corresponding to plain file changes > that are not adjacent to something interesting, like a copyfrom or > directory > creatio or property change. So, the branch topology is preserved. > > Always, so far, if a full repository triggers a bug, the stripped and > reduced version does too. And is much easier to pass around and look at. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> >
