Name

svndumpfilter exclude — Filter out nodes with given prefixes from the dump stream.

Synopsis

svndumpfilter exclude PATH_PREFIX...

Description

This can be used to exclude nodes that begin with one or more PATH_PREFIXes from a filtered dump file.

Options

--drop-empty-revs
--preserve-revprops
--quiet
--renumber-revs
--skip-missing-merge-sources

Examples

If we have a dump file from a repository with a number of different picnic-related directories in it, but we want to keep everything except the sandwiches part of the repository, we’ll exclude only that path:

$ svndumpfilter exclude sandwiches < dumpfile > filtered-dumpfile
Excluding prefixes:
   '/sandwiches'

Revision 0 committed as 0.
Revision 1 committed as 1.
Revision 2 committed as 2.
Revision 3 committed as 3.
Revision 4 committed as 4.

Dropped 1 node(s):
   '/sandwiches'

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