people.apache.org has plenty of free disk space to play with.
----- Original Message ----- > From: Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > To: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > Cc: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org; Apache Infrastructure > <infrastruct...@apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:29 PM > Subject: Re: any svn experts out there > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz > <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On 1/19/12 4 :33PM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" > <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> ..Looking at [1], I'd try "svndumpfilter include > /flex/sdk" to extract >>>> just the flex part of that big dump file... >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Carol Frampton <cfram...@adobe.com> > wrote: >>> Yup, but not enough disk space right now to do that. And even if we > were >>> to get that we would have to eliminate all the files that we aren't >>> allowed to give to ASF. With careful filtering it might be possible to > do >>> that but it would be tricky with all the branches to get that right... >> >> I'm not an svn expert but if you want to get the full history yet >> exclude some files, starting from the full dump that you have, the >> logical way seems to be: >> >> 1) Filter that dump to keep only /flex >> 2) Filter the result to remove the full history of all unwanted files >> >> Note that the software grant from Adobe includes a .txt file with the >> list of all files that are contributed - this should allow for >> implement 2) with a script, if svndumpfilter allows for eliminating >> individual files (as opposed to folders) from the dump. >> >> If you don't have enough disk space on the machine that hosts the big >> dump, you might transfer it to a box of yours which has more space, in >> chunks of 1GB of less, created with dd, copying and deleting one chunk >> at a time (using a script of course;-) to minimize disk usage on that >> box. > > I, personally, have enough disk space at my disposal to deal with > this, but it's hard for me to see Adobe sending all this IP to my > house, even temporarily. > > > >> >> -Bertrand >> >>>> [1] >>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svndumpfilter.commands.c.includ >>>> e.html >
