An FYI to all, I'm back trying to deal with this migration, and it's still a giant mess. The consistent problem seem to be that revision numbering is just flat wrong when files were renamed in a revision. I'm fixing "svnadmin load" errors one-at-a-time by the following process:
1. Find in the dump file the "add" that's breaking. Note that there is a Node-copyfrom-rev that refers to a revision that doesn't exist in the filtered file (and is irrelevant in the pre-filtered file); that is, the revision number is incorrect. Also note that the svnadmin load error message refers to a third revision number that has nothing to do with the problem either -- it's NOT the number in the Node-copyfrom-rev. 2. Find the first previous revisionof that file that was a change. Note the correct revision number. 3. Return to the add that's breaking and manually change the revision number to refer to that commit. 4. Wipe the repo and restart. Go back to step 1. I'm doing the load with svnadmin 1.7.13, but the dump was from svnadmin 1.6.6. Upgrading the latter is not an option, which is why we're moving and splitting the repo. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Harlan Harris <har...@harris.name> wrote: > Tony, I used the seemingly-standard version of dumpfilter, not the 2 or 3 > versions. But then I also did the search/replace trick that others had > suggested to shift paths around. I don't think that's the issue, but I'm > not sure. > > Thorsten, I wish it was just "a bit of web application stuff", but it's > actually a 5-year-old enterprise repo that was horribly abused, including > checkins of very large binary and data files. The dump file of the whole > thing is about 25 GB in size. That's part of why I want to split it up and > filtering things out. > > I'm going to try just exporting the last month worth of revisions, and see > if that works better. We may have to sacrifice most history in the interest > of actually getting this working. > > -Harlan > > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de > > wrote: > >> Guten Tag Harlan Harris, >> am Freitag, 30. August 2013 um 17:10 schrieben Sie: >> >> > I guess disk space is cheap now...! >> >> It's especially cheaper than your time if you only need to version "a >> bit of web application stuff" and, depending on the version of your >> old repos, newer repos may even reduce disk space because of >> representation sharing and some improvements in storing directory >> structures in Subversion 1.8. >> >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen, >> >> Thorsten Schöning >> >> -- >> Thorsten Schöning E-Mail:thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de >> AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ >> >> Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 >> Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 >> Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 >> >> AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln >> AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow >> >> >
