On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:41 AM Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > > After years of eyeballing Subversion dump streams as part of making > reposurgeon work, I have belatedly realized there is a dump stream > operation I don't know how to generate with the CLI. And I need to > to get good test load coverage. > > If, in a normally-set up Subversion repository, I create and commit > three files under trunk and then do "svn copy trunk branches/stable", > what I see being generated into the dump is three file copies to > stable. > > That's fine, but I also want to be able to generate a *directory* copy. > I see these in the dump files I get in bug reports. Here's an > example: > > Node-path: tags/1.0rc1 > Node-kind: dir > Node-action: add > Node-copyfrom-rev: 5 > Node-copyfrom-path: tags/1.0 > > How do I generate this kind of operation from the CLI - that is, a copy of the > whole directory rather than a wildcarded copy of all of its files?
I'd try two things: - Just guessing here, but perhaps the problem with your test is that your working copy is "mixed-revision" after you added the three files. I.e. the 'trunk' directory is a revision behind, after you added the three files. See if it makes a difference if you do "svn up $wc_root" before performing the "svn copy trunk branches/stable". - Maybe you can get what you want by performing a server-side copy, instead of in your working copy and then committing. I.e. "svn copy $url/trunk $url/branches/stable". -- Johan
