When --incremental is used, dump records all changes that the user has access to. When --incremental is used, I think dump should dump the whole tree that the user has access to. I can imagine that this would be a non-trivial change for an uncommon use case.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > When --incremental isn't used svnrdump tries to dump the full tree and > runs into the authz restrictions. Do you have a suggestion for an > alternative behaviour? > > Andrew Sasak wrote on Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:58:50 -0400: >> svnrdump fails when access control restrictions are in place on the >> server and the --incremental option is not used. The message returned >> is "authorization failed". This does not occur when the --incremental >> option occurs. The svnrdump command is version 1.7.2.