Eiren Smith wrote on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 17:22:43 -0400: > On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > > Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 20:05:16 +0200: > >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:57:12PM -0400, Eiren Smith wrote: > >>> Unfortunately, it appears I cannot create dump files from revisions > >>> after a missing revs/ file gap. All the dumpfiles I created which > >>> began with a revision past a point of continuity were unusable. > > > > Did you pass --incremental and/or --deltas flags to 'svnadmin dump'? > > > Not in the case I described in my earlier post. But I did experiment with > --incremental and the result there was a tiny little dumpfile, which perhaps > just had one revision in it. >
cat $dumpfile | grep '^'Revision-number: > I didn't try --deltas. The page > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.dump.html > This page is a couple of years old, please try the 1.5 or 1.6 book. > says, "... deltified dumpfiles are more CPU intensive to create ..." which > makes me think the deltas get recalculated by --deltas, not just grabbed from > the revs/ files directly. So it might not help, huh? > You can sit here and speculate whether or not it would work, or you can try the command for yourself and see for yourself whether it works. > /eiren Daniel (echo "Try it and see" >> ~/docs/quotes-I-want-on-T-shirts.txt)
