On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 2:00 PM Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 11:05 AM Magnus Lyrberg > <magnus.lyrb...@elk-studios.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 4:51 PM Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 2:21 PM Magnus Lyrberg > > > > Is there some other way besides making a bunch of dummy commits > > > > to reach our current revision number in a new repository? > > > > > > Maybe you can give svndumpfilter [1] a try to filter out the "cruft" > > > (after creating a dump file from the original repository). > > > Unfortunately 'svnadmin load' ignores the revision information in the > dump > > file. If the new repository is empty it will start with revision 1 > > regardless of > > what the dump file says. > > > > I made a quick test to verify this: > > > > svnadmin load /var/svn/repo2 < partial_dump.dump > > <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 7 > > * adding path : test.txt ... done. > > > > ------- Committed new rev 1 (loaded from original rev 7) >>> > > But what is partial_dump.dump? Can you show us the exact commands you > used to create it? > > Did you create this by dumping only revisions 7 and 8 from the > original repository, as in 'svnadmin dump /path/to/orig_repos -r7:8 > > partial_dump.dump'? In that case, it is expected to behave like you > described. > > Or did you create it by dumping the entire repository, and then > svndumpfilter-ing out the unneeded stuff, as in 'svnadmin dump > /path/to/orig_repos | svndumpfilter exclude /path/to/unneededstuff > > partial_dump.dump'? > > It is the last technique that I was suggesting, and I would expect > that to retain all the existing revision numbers (some revisions might > become empty revs because of the filtering, but they should still > "count"). > You are completely correct that the partial_dump.dump contained only revision 7 and 8, and that a filtered dump like you suggest will result in the correct revision number in the new repository. This does however also result in a number of empty revisions (dummy commits as I called them in the initial mail), which is what we want to avoid. What we would like to achieve is to have the current HEAD, without the history, in a new repository while still maintaining the revision number. Preferably without (quite a lot of) empty commits. Best regards Magnus Lyrberg
