Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-18 Thread Jan Stürtz
Hi Philip, sorry for the late reply. Thanks for your details. That helped and works fine for us. Kind regards - Jan Am 16.08.2013 11:51, schrieb Philip Martin: > Jan Stürtz writes: > >> Hi list, >> we have a quite old & grown svn repository here. With some "interesting" >> svn:mergeinfo Pro

Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Note that it is sometimes much, much faster and creates much smaller and cleaner repositories, to simply "svn export" and "svn import" the data files themselves to a new repository. You don't get the history, but a pointer to the old repository kept online in read only mode may be considered enou

Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-16 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:51:58AM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > The mergeinfo is only parsed for partial dumps, i.e. when the start > revision greater than one, as this allows the dump process to issue a > warning when the mergeinfo refers to revisions not in the dump file. > The only workaround i

Re: svnadmin dump fails with E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':'

2013-08-16 Thread Philip Martin
Jan Stürtz writes: > Hi list, > we have a quite old & grown svn repository here. With some "interesting" > svn:mergeinfo Properties. (see the diff below) > > This seems to be been allowed in earlier svn versions. > > For backup Issues svn copy worked fine for all the time, > but now we want to up