svn-go compromises a small golang library for working with Subversion repository dumps, and a tool based on the library designed to clean up SVN history:
- removing unwanted properties,
- perform string replacements of file/path names,
- remove unwanted paths,
- retrofit branch changes,
Everything is configured via either command line arguments or a simple rules.yml file.
Sample invocations:
# Unix shell
$ go run . -read /my/repos/subversion.dump -pathinfo
Attempts to load the dump and then displays all the created paths.
# Powershell, any platform
PS> go run . -read svn.*.dump -rules rules.yml -outdir /tmp -verbose
Loads all the files matching "svn.`*.dump" in the current directory with verbose output, applies any changes from rules.yml, and then recreates each file in the output path, /tmp.
go run . -read svn.*.dump -outfile combined.dump
Loads all of the input .dump files and creates a single dump file containing all of them.
This tool was primarily written to retroactively apply the structure our repository ended up with back to the beginning of it's history.
Imagine that up until r1000 you had a single project layout:
/Trunk
/Branches
/Tags
but you changed this to allow multiple projects.
r1000 /Trunk -> /Project1/Trunk
r1003 /Branches -> /Project1/Branches
/Tags -> /Project1/Tags
Any path specified in the "retrofit:" list in the yml will be sought out and then actively pushed back to where the first thing branched/copied into it was actually created.
r5: /Trunk created r10: /Trunk/Source/main.cpp created r999: /Project1 created r1000: /Trunk/Source moved to /Project1/Trunk/Source r1010: /Trunk deleted
Running the tool with a yaml like:
retrofit-paths:
- Project1 # no leading slash
retrfit-props:
- svn:ignore
- svn:mergeinfoThis will move the creation of Project1 and Project1/Source back to the creation of the original Trunk directory, and it will rewrite paths from r10 thru r1010 where the original /Trunk was deleted, including branch references.
It will also do a similar search/replace across the svn:ignore and svn:mergeinfo properties.
The net result is that the generated dumps will reconstruct the repository as though you had started with /Project1/Trunk in the first place.