On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 09:36, BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> >> > $ cat Example1.dump | sed >> > 's/file:\/\/\/svnTest\/Example1/file:\/\/\/svnTest\/Example2/' > >> > Example1-edited.dump >> Do not use sed to edit a dumpfile. Use a tool designed for the task, like >>svndumptool. >> http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/ > > Why? B/c it might change data in files too? That's actually something I want > done. > My prime repository has some scripts in it that store the repository > information > for auto-checkouts as part of build environments, and I want those changed > too - > not just the svn:externals. > > Or would sed 'break' the dump file format? svndumptool does look useful to > verify that sed did exactly what I wanted - standard diff won't work well on a > 2.1 GB dumpfile.
If you modify the contents as well, it'll break the dumpfile. The dumpfile contains an MD5 hash of each file for integrity checking.
