:author: Keith F. Prussing, Ph.D.
:date: 2015-05-13
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Dumping a Subversion Repository
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.. container:: abstract

    After finishing my thesis work, I wanted to grab the revision
    history for both the software I developed and the writing of my
    dissertation.  It was (is?) stored in a subversion server owned by
    the lab; however, I want all of that for my own purposes.

First, I had to dump from a remote server::

    $ svnrdump https://url/to/repo > repo_full.svndump

Now I have the full repository, but it is full of empty commits.  This
is because I had only a twig on the server so I need to strip all of
those empty commits out.  Enter ``svndumpfilter``.

::

    $ svndumpfilter --drop-all-empty-revs --renumber-revs include \
    > myrepo < repo_full.svn_dump > repo_stripped.svn_dump

Now, I can compress the file and store all of my revision history!  This
isn't really very exciting information, but I wanted to get it down for
my own notes since I did it once and promptly forgot how to do it.