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svndumpfilter for subversion > 1.7

I got the dump file of my repository from xp-dev using their import & export > Download Repository Dump File
Then I tried to delete some file from path from all revisions with svndumpformat: 

:~/fixingsize$ svndumpfilter exclude trunk/Debug/filetoremove < MYSVN.dump > newMYSVN.dump
Excluding prefixes:
   '/trunk/Debug/filetoremove'

svndumpfilter: E140001: Malformed dumpfile header '?\13'

I understood It may be cause of svndumpfilter is for subversion less than 1.7.
I tried using svndumpfilter3 and again, without success:

:~/fixingsize$ ./svndumpfilter3 --exclude trunk/Debug/filetoremove < MYSVN.dump >     newMYSVN.dump
Excluding prefixes:
   '/trunk/Debug/filetoremove'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./svndumpfilter3", line 917, in <module>
    main()
  File "./svndumpfilter3", line 768, in main
    format, uuid, text = read_dump_header(fr)
  File "./svndumpfilter3", line 459, in read_dump_header
    assert mo_version
AssertionError

Does anyone know anything about it?

Solution

  • Well, I found a solution.
    For some reason I think the file I got from the xp-dev using their import & export > Download Repository Dump File wasn't suitable. Or I didn't know what to do with it.
    Anyway I did the next thing:

    svnrdump dump https://xp-dev.com/svn/MYSVN > MYSVN.dump

svndumpfilter exclude trunk/Debug/filetodelete < MYSVN.dump > newMYSVN.dump

    And it worked.