On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:32:02PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote: >> >> Having a way to do this with svnsync and svndumptool would already be >> very useful. It would at least give some assurance to svn admins that >> these things are 'repairable'. Being able to fix a live repository >> would of course be even better :-). > > Editing dump files has always been the approach to fixing up mistakes in > history. So I don't think we need a change in the FS backends. Instead > we need better dump file editing capabilities. svndumptool might go > part of the way. But ideally this would be built into svndumpfilter or > a new offical tool that edits dump files (rather than just filtering > nodes from a dumpfile).
I agree with Stefan. I would suggest investing effort in better dump file tools. Remember the tool that Eric Raymond contributed? http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/server-side/svncutter/svncutter Perhaps this sort of support could be added to that tool. He also has his reposurgeon tool that does not operate on dump files but git fast-import streams: http://freecode.com/projects/reposurgeon Maybe should be looking at better ways to interact with that format so we can benefit from tools created around it? -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
