Subversion Version Control. Using The Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects

15.5. svndumpfilter

This program works as a filter for the output of svnadmin dump, and allows you to exclude specific paths, or alternately specify only certain paths in the output.

Online help for each of svndumpfilter's subcommands can be obtained by running the program as: svndumpfilter help [COMMAND].

Options

• --version

  Outputs version information about svndumpfilter.

Subcommands

The svndumpfilter commands (with alternate names in parentheses) are

• exclude

• include

• help (?, h)

15.5.1. svndumpfilter exclude

Allows you to specify path prefixes that should be excluded from the dump stream output.

Basic Usage

$ svnadmin dump REPOS | svndumpfilter exclude PREFIX... > REPOS.dump

Options

• --drop-empty-revs

  Remove any revisions that end up empty after the filtered paths are removed.

• --renumber-revs

  Renumber the revisions that remain after filtering out paths, so that all revisions are sequential.

• --preserve-revprops

  Don't filter out any revision properties.

• --quiet

  Don't display any statistical information about the filtered output.

15.5.2. svndumpfilter include

Allows you to specify specific path prefixes and exclude all paths that don't match.

Basic Usage

$ svnadmin dump REPOS | svndumpfilter include PREFIX... > REPOS.dump

Options

• --drop-empty-revs

  Remove any revisions that end up empty after the filtered paths are removed.

• --renumber-revs

  Renumber the revisions that remain after filtering out paths, so that all revisions are sequential.

• --preserve-revprops

  Don't filter out any revision properties.

• --quiet

  Don't display any statistical information about the filtered output.

15.5.3. svndumpfilter help (?, h)

This command outputs documentation for the svndumpfilter command. To get help on a specific subcommand, run help with the name of the command.

Basic Usage

$ svndumpfilter help [COMMAND]

Options

None