Okay, I managed to cheat a bit, so I'm sharing my workaround here. In my includes file, I used the form:
/specs*01234* ...and for the directories: /results/RST-0001 (v0.01) #001* ...and now everything seems to be expunged that should be. I have no idea why the original form doesn't work, maybe it's the "[" characters or somesuch. Obviously you need to be a bit careful that your patterns aren't too general; in my case those five-digit numbers are a unique enough pattern to work for me. — Jason On 15 October 2012 09:57, Jason Heeris <jason.hee...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to use svndumpfilter to remove specific files and > directories from a repository dump, but I can't seem to remove all of > them. > > Some of the files are, for example: > > /specs/[01234] product x spec.pdf > > There are other files in other top-level directories, but they all > have that "[xxxxx]" prefix. > > There are also some directories I'm filtering out such as: > > /results/RST-0001 (v0.01) #001 > > I created a text file to list these excluded path prefixes. I enter > each directory into it verbatim, but for the files I just enter the > prefix up to and including the "[01234]" part (to catch any moves, > renames, etc). So my "excludes.txt" contains something like > > /specs/[01234] > ...bunch of similar path prefixes > /results/RST-0001 (v0.01) #001 > ...bunch of similar path prefixes > > I use 'svnadmin dump' to dump the repository contents, and then run > > svndumpfilter exclude --targets "excludes.txt" < repo-01.dump > > repo-02.dump 2> filter.log > > Unfortunately, only the directories (the second kind of entries in my > 'excludes.txt') seem to get filtered. Looking in 'filter.log', there's > no mention of removing the files starting with "[xxxxx]", but it does > explicitly say that the other directories were removed (although it > doesn't list all the files under them). Loading the resulting dump > file into a repository, the files are certainly still there, but the > directories aren't. > > I've also tried putting a "*" on the end of each line and using the > "--pattern" argument, but the files are still not filtered out. > > So how do I get svndumpfilter to get rid of these files from my > repository? Each dump/load cycle takes about seven hours, so I'm not > really able to try a lot of trial and error. > > All of this is done on Windows Server 2003. Versions of both svnadmin > and svndump are 1.7.5 (r1336830), and they're the binaries that come > with VisualSVN server 2.5.5. > > Please CC me on replies. > > — Jason Heeris
