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Re: [PATCH] Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 23, 2012, 20:38 UTC
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Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com> writes:
> To ease testing without depending on a reachable svn server, this
> compact python script mimics parts of svnrdumps behaviour.
> It requires the remote url to start with sim://.
> Eventual slashes at the end of the url are stripped.
s/ventual/xcess/ perhaps?
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> The url specifies the path of the svn dump file (as created by
> svnrdump). Selectable parts of it, or the whole file, are written
> to stdout. The part is selectable by giving start and end revision
> on the command line.
>
> Start and end revisions can be specified on the command line
> (-rSTART:END, like for svnrdump).
> Only revisions between START and excluding END are replayed from
> the dumpfile specified by the url. END can also be HEAD.
>
> If the start revision specified on the command line doesn't exist
> in the dump file, it returns 1.
> This emulates the behaviour of svnrdump when START>HEAD, i.e. the
> requested start revision doesn't exist on the server.
Much more understandable than before.
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> To allow using the same dump file for simulating multiple
> incremental imports the highest visible revision can be limited by
> setting the environment variable SVNRMAX to that value. This
> effectively limits HEAD to simulate the situation where higher
> revs don't exist yet.

It is unclear how this is different from giving the ceiling by specifying it as the "END" in -rSTART:END command line. Is this feature really needed?

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  4. Jonathan NiederJul 23, 2012
  5. Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing.Florian Achleitner, Jul 23, 2012
  6. Jonathan NiederJul 23, 2012
  7. Florian AchleitnerJul 23, 2012
  8. Florian AchleitnerJul 23, 2012
  9. Matthieu MoyJul 23, 2012
  10. Florian AchleitnerJul 23, 2012
  11. Matthieu MoyJul 23, 2012
  12. Jeff KingJul 23, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  14. Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing.Florian Achleitner, Jul 23, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  16. Jonathan NiederJul 24, 2012
  17. Florian AchleitnerJul 25, 2012
  18. Erik Faye-LundJul 24, 2012
  19. Matthieu MoyJul 23, 2012
  20. Jonathan NiederJul 23, 2012
  21. Florian AchleitnerJul 23, 2012

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