svnfiltereddump

The svnfiltereddump tool is meant to extract portions of repositories of the Subversion source control system. It's output can be loaded with Subversion's "svnadmin load" command into a new Subversion repository. The source repository must be given on the command line. A list of paths to extract may given on command line or in one or more input file(s). It is also possible to skip the revision history before a given starting revision.

PROJECT STATUS

This project is no longer maintained. There was no general interest in this for a long time. In case that someone needs to make it work with modern software versions:

• This project has no special requirements on Python an should work with any recent version of Python 3.
• Most likely this software will fail with present versions of Subversion because it fails to parse error messages. That part of the code is covered well by the tests in the integration_tests. Once these tests have been fixed by relaxing/expanding the regular expressions to parse Subversion's messages it should run fine.

COMPATIBILITY

This tool was designed to run on Linux. It is assumed to work on other Unix-ish systems. It will certainly not work on systems with no IPC over pipes or with backslashes in path names.

INSTALLATION

Presently the preferred way of installation is via pip:

sudo pip install svnfiltereddump

MANUAL INSTALLATION

Please look at the svnfiltereddump documentation.

Online Docs

See svnfiltereddump.1.md or https://cdn.rawgit.com/derFunk/svnfiltereddump/master/doc/svnfiltereddump.1.html

Man Pages

If it is not installed on your system, you can display it by typing

man man/man1/svnfiltereddump.1

or

nroff -man man/man1/svnfiltereddump.1 | less

in directory containing this README.

CHANGE HISTORY

1.2:

• Just fixed version number - no functional change to version 1.1.

1.1:

• Updated to work with Subversion 1.8.

1.0:

• Bug fix: GitHub #1 - Crash on missing Text-content-md5 svnfiltereddump will no longer crash if "svnadmin dump" will write out a node with Text-Content and no MD5 checksum. This was observed with Subversion 1.7.5 and empty files.
• Bug fix: GitHub #2 - Dump fails on mergeinfo warning 0x0001 svnfiltereddump will no longer crash when "svnadmin dump" writes out warnings like "WARNING 0x0001: Mergeinfo referencing revision(s) prior to the oldest dumped revision (rXXX). Loading this dump may result in invalid mergeinfo.".

1.0beta4:

• Bug fix: Node-action 'replace' not supported.