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Svndumpfilter

Hi! From svndumpfilter help exclude: “Filter out nodes with given prefixes from
dumpstream.”
I’ve also reed the manual. Is it really just possible to filter with prefixes? I
would like to use the svndumpfilter to filter files like *.ext. Is this
possible? If not, could I use any filter to remove a specific file? Please give
some examples!
I would appreciate help very much, thanks!

Best,
Jesper


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Re: Svndumpfilter

Posted by Ulrich Eckhardt <ec...@satorlaser.com>.
Jesper Carlsson wrote:
> Hi! From svndumpfilter help exclude: 'Filter out nodes with given prefixes
> from dumpstream.'
> I've also reed the manual. Is it really just possible to filter with
> prefixes? I would like to use the svndumpfilter to filter files like *.ext.

Hmmm, as said, it's not possible. However, you can create a list of files to 
remove ('find -name \*.ext' or somesuch) and then use the whole path as 
prefix for things to filter out. Thise requires that you don't have 
any /foo/dir.ext/another_dir/file that you want to keep.

Uli

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Re: Svndumpfilter

Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
"C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net> writes:

> "Jesper Carlsson" <jc...@triacon.se> writes:
> 
> > Hi! From svndumpfilter help exclude: “Filter out nodes with given
> > prefixes from dumpstream.” I’ve also reed the manual. Is it
> > really just possible to filter with prefixes? I would like to use
> > the svndumpfilter to filter files like *.ext. Is this possible?
> 
> No.  When we say "with given prefixes", we actually mean it.
> 
> > If not, could I use any filter to remove a specific file? Please
> > give some examples!  I would appreciate help very much, thanks!
> 
> Actually, I imagine it would be pretty trivial to teach svndumpfilter
> to filter based not on prefixes, but on file patterns.  Are you up for
> a coding task?  Basically s/prefix/pattern/ through the entirety of
> svndumpfilter/main.c, and then replace 'ary_pattern_match' (which was
> 'ary_prefix_match' :-) with svn_cstring_match_glob_list().
> 
> (cross-posting to dev@ in case someone there wants to take on this
> bite-sized task)

Ooh, though perhaps only the 'exclude' subcommand should allow this,
since you would get almost guaranteed bustedness if you use anything
other than a prefix with the 'include' subcommand.  For example, the
command 'svndumpfilter include *.doc' will keep Word files, but not
the parent directories which hold them. :-)

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Re: Svndumpfilter

Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
"C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net> writes:

> "Jesper Carlsson" <jc...@triacon.se> writes:
> 
> > Hi! From svndumpfilter help exclude: “Filter out nodes with given
> > prefixes from dumpstream.” I’ve also reed the manual. Is it
> > really just possible to filter with prefixes? I would like to use
> > the svndumpfilter to filter files like *.ext. Is this possible?
> 
> No.  When we say "with given prefixes", we actually mean it.
> 
> > If not, could I use any filter to remove a specific file? Please
> > give some examples!  I would appreciate help very much, thanks!
> 
> Actually, I imagine it would be pretty trivial to teach svndumpfilter
> to filter based not on prefixes, but on file patterns.  Are you up for
> a coding task?  Basically s/prefix/pattern/ through the entirety of
> svndumpfilter/main.c, and then replace 'ary_pattern_match' (which was
> 'ary_prefix_match' :-) with svn_cstring_match_glob_list().
> 
> (cross-posting to dev@ in case someone there wants to take on this
> bite-sized task)

Ooh, though perhaps only the 'exclude' subcommand should allow this,
since you would get almost guaranteed bustedness if you use anything
other than a prefix with the 'include' subcommand.  For example, the
command 'svndumpfilter include *.doc' will keep Word files, but not
the parent directories which hold them. :-)

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RE: Svndumpfilter

Posted by Jesper Carlsson <jc...@triacon.se>.
C. Michael Pilato:
>>Actually, I imagine it would be pretty trivial to teach svndumpfilter
to filter based not on prefixes, but on file patterns.  Are you up for
a coding task?<<

Thanks for your fast replay! But no, I'm not up for this task.

Best,
Jesper


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Re: Svndumpfilter

Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
"Jesper Carlsson" <jc...@triacon.se> writes:

> Hi! From svndumpfilter help exclude: “Filter out nodes with given
> prefixes from dumpstream.” I’ve also reed the manual. Is it
> really just possible to filter with prefixes? I would like to use
> the svndumpfilter to filter files like *.ext. Is this possible?

No.  When we say "with given prefixes", we actually mean it.

> If not, could I use any filter to remove a specific file? Please
> give some examples!  I would appreciate help very much, thanks!

Actually, I imagine it would be pretty trivial to teach svndumpfilter
to filter based not on prefixes, but on file patterns.  Are you up for
a coding task?  Basically s/prefix/pattern/ through the entirety of
svndumpfilter/main.c, and then replace 'ary_pattern_match' (which was
'ary_prefix_match' :-) with svn_cstring_match_glob_list().

(cross-posting to dev@ in case someone there wants to take on this
bite-sized task)

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Re: Svndumpfilter

Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
"Jesper Carlsson" <jc...@triacon.se> writes:

> Hi! From svndumpfilter help exclude: “Filter out nodes with given
> prefixes from dumpstream.” I’ve also reed the manual. Is it
> really just possible to filter with prefixes? I would like to use
> the svndumpfilter to filter files like *.ext. Is this possible?

No.  When we say "with given prefixes", we actually mean it.

> If not, could I use any filter to remove a specific file? Please
> give some examples!  I would appreciate help very much, thanks!

Actually, I imagine it would be pretty trivial to teach svndumpfilter
to filter based not on prefixes, but on file patterns.  Are you up for
a coding task?  Basically s/prefix/pattern/ through the entirety of
svndumpfilter/main.c, and then replace 'ary_pattern_match' (which was
'ary_prefix_match' :-) with svn_cstring_match_glob_list().

(cross-posting to dev@ in case someone there wants to take on this
bite-sized task)

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