On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:55:19PM -0800, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi Joe, > > On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > > 72GB worth of svn data presents a real problem for us as we only have > > about 100GBof free disk space available on the svn servers. > > Let's assume that someone has the 72GB. If you look at Carol's email you'll > she that she is attempting to pull only part of that repos. > > So the process would be to extract the proper part of the 72GB repos making > the much smaller one. > > Is there a particular svn dump command that will allow her to extract or > replicate the necessary parts of the Adobe svn tree to make a smaller more > manageable repos or dump?
You will need to look at svndumpfilter[1,2,3] - these are additional scripts that allow you to filter on specific attributes of the data - each has it's own pitfalls - so they need to be read carefully before using. > > Thanks, > Dave > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> > >> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > >> Cc: "infrastruct...@apache.org Infrastructure" <infrastruct...@apache.org> > >> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:42 PM > >> Subject: Re: any svn experts out there > >> > >> Hi Carol, > >> > >> I'm cross-posting this to infrastructure where svn experts lurk. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Dave > >> > >> On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Carol Frampton wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> As you've heard we have the frameworks code staged and ready to go. We > >>> would really like to preserve the svn commit history of the files but I > >>> haven't been able to figure out how to do that. > >>> > >>> I am not a svn server expert although I've learned more than I want to > >>> know about it this week. The dump of our svn repository is 72GB with > >>> 23000+ revisions. The repository contains source for about 15 different > >>> projects at Adobe and I would guess each project has many branches like > >>> Flex. I don't have access to that machine and that machine, with the > >> 72GB > >>> dump file, has almost no free disk space so it is hard to do almost > >>> anything else. More disk space has been requested but I was told it could > >>> take days to get more space. > >>> > >>> I had thought I could use use svndumpfilter to filter out the frameworks > >>> directory in the apache staging branch we created a few weeks ago but I > >>> realize now that I will just get the change logs up to the apache branch > >>> creation a few weeks ago which isn't very interesting. > >>> > >>> I then traced the history of the apache branch which I created from the > >>> 4.y branch and found 4.y was created from the trunk_private branch which > >>> was created from the hero_private branch which was created from trunk. So > >>> there are lots of branches. > >>> > >>> > >>> The version history is currently available at > >>> http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/branches/4.y but I > >>> can't guarantee how long it will be there. > >>> > >>> So the question now is what to do? > >>> > >>> Carol > >>> > >> > -- Cheers, Tony --------------------------------------- Tony Stevenson t...@pc-tony.com // pct...@apache.org t...@caret.cam.ac.uk http://blog.pc-tony.com GPG - 1024D/51047D66 --------------------------------------"
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