On Jun 17, 2011, at 24:59 , Geoff Hoffman wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Bruno Antunes <b...@dei.uc.pt> wrote: > Hi, > > As part of the work of my PhD thesis I need to load the ASF Subversion > repository into my own local repository in order to mine and extract > information from the repository without overloading the ASF servers. > > I have downloaded the repository dump and started loading it into my own > repository. But the repository is huge (~45GB), and loading it using > 'svnadmin load' will take me days (~15). > > I tried 'svndumpfilter' to filter out some projects but I get the error > 'svndumpfilter: Unsupported dumpfile version: 3'. I'm using 'svndumpfilter' > version 1.6.12. Is there any way to overcome this error? > > Do you know any faster way to load the dump file or to filter out some > projects/revisions so I can speed up the process? > > Thank you in advance. > > Best regards, > Bruno Antunes > > > > Just a thought... Do you need the revision history or only the current (head) > revision? > > Guessing if you do not need the revision history then it will be much smaller > and faster to svn export their-stuff -r HEAD
I need the entire revision history, because I need to extract historical information from the repository. But I could use the revision history from specific projects only, I don't need the entire repository, which contains all the ASF projects. The problem is I can filter these projects in the dump file. Best regards, Bruno Antunes
