Hi Nathan! It's really great method with 'A', 'B', 'C' dumps! Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately was in my case the dumpfile at least once such corrupt, that 'svndumptool split' have been canceled with an exception (bad tag 'xyz'). And the entire dumpfile ist pretty big (~20GB) for vi :-(
WbR Eugene > > In the recent conversion I did I found it fairly easy to : > > 1. svnamin load, observe on which revision it fails > 2. 'svndumptool split' [1] the failing revision out of the main dumpfile > such that you get A.dump (revisions before bad rev), B.dump (the bad > revision) and C.dump (revisions after bad rev). > 3. Open B.dump in your favourite editor that won't mangle binary data > (vi!) and fix it. (Does a parent directory need to be created? Is a > rename wrong? Forcibly "un-orphan" a file by reconnecting its path to > its true parent, etc.) The format is pretty easy to work with if you're > careful -- just copy an entry similar to what you want and tweak. > 4. svnadmin load A.dump, B.dump, C.dump > 5. Goto 1, for any problem in C.dump. > > I found this much faster than trying to change something in the vss2svn > process, and it guaranteed working results. > > -Nathan > > [1] http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/ > > _______________________________________________ > vss2svn-users mailing list > Project homepage: > http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ > Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org > Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger _______________________________________________ vss2svn-users mailing list Project homepage: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user
