I want to sync/copy a single project out of a moderate large SVN repo using the (usual) sequence
svnadmin create %mirror%
rem make insecure dummy hook
echo rem dummy > %mirror%\hooks\pre-revprop-change.bat
svnsync init %mirror_url% http://svn/original/...
svnsync sync %mirror_url%
This works but takes long time, see related question. In fact I do not need any revisions prior to e.g. r=17830. And the real problem is that the original repo seems to be corrupt before this revision and I can't convert it to hg, so I try to workaround ...
Question:
Is there a way to fake the newly created repo (after 4th line) so it "believes" it has revision 17830 already and continues with newer ones. (Maybe some propset magic?) There are no changes in the project/folder before that revision.
svnsync will copy revisions based on value in the 'current' file (of the destination repo), and the entry in the svnsync revprop 0 file that says which is the last revision copied. Initialise svnsync, then fudge both of these numbers to your desired revision and it should work as you want.
This is possible.
You need to create dummy rev files in the folders \db\revprops\0
and \db\revs\0
so that you don't get the error there is no revision 17830
.
The SVN mailing list has an answer to that topic; see http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-02/0114.shtml
From my experiments based and helped by the answers, I believe this is not possible.
Try this, (just figured this out)
1) check out a working copy of the repository you are syncing to
2a) generate a patch with svn diff -rcurrent:next from the source repository
(so current is the current revision, and next is the next one that is broken)
however, most of the I found svn diff still works
2b) or, add a dummy file to the repository you are syncing to and tag it (so you
can check in something)
3) do a svn ci -m 'syncfix' which will bump the repository you are syncing to
4) after this, svnsync sync will continue most of the time
5) sometimes it will complain the HEAD is one revision in the future. To fix this
go to /db/revprops/0
edit the 0 file,
chmod +w 0
bump the revision,
....
svn:sync-last-merged-rev
V 4
8499 <--- this one, add one to it so 8500 in this example
END
6) after this, svnsync sync will continue
7) below is a script I just made to get over the bumps,
the end result will probably not be perfect but it will get most of the stuff in.
then you can fix the end result by exporting into it from the HEAD of the repository
you are syncing from.
set -x
SYNC_REPO=/repo/reelbox.org-sync
SRC_WD=/src/Multimedia/Reelbox/reelbox.org
SYNC_WD=/src/Multimedia/Reelbox/reelbox.org-sync
bumpRevision()
{
SYNC_REPO_FILE=$SYNC_REPO/db/revprops/0/0
cd $SYNC_WD
svn update
CUR_REV=`svn update | awk '{print $3}' | sed s/\.$//`
echo $CUR_REV
NEXT_REV=`expr $CUR_REV + 1`
echo $NEXT_REV
cd $SRC_WD
echo svn diff -r$CUR_REV:$NEXT_REV, >>SYNCLOG
svn diff -r$CUR_REV:$NEXT_REV 2>>SYNCLOG >$SYNC_WD/patch.in
echo >>SYNCLOG
LOG=`svn log -r$NEXT_REV`
cd $SYNC_WD
patch -p0 < patch.in
RESULT=`svn diff`
echo $LOG
echo $RESULT
if [ -n "$RESULT" ]; then
echo patched
svn ci -m "syncfix:$LOG"
else
echo not patched
if [ ! -f FIXFILE ]; then
echo $NEXT_REV > FIXFILE
svn add FIXFILE
else
echo $NEXT_REV >> FIXFILE
fi
svn ci -m "syncfix:nothing patched:$LOG"
fi
}
doSync()
{
svnsync sync file://$SYNC_REPO
STATUS=$?
if [ $STATUS == 1 ]; then
ECODE=`svnsync sync file://$SYNC_REPO 2>&1 | awk '{print $2}' | sed s/:$//`
echo $ECODE
case $ECODE in
E000022)
exit 1
;;
esac
fi
return $STATUS
}
# bumpRevision
doSync
while [ $? == 1 ]; do
bumpRevision
doSync
done
Ondrej Popp