Re: Adjust revision in new repository

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 2:05 PM Yasuhito FUTATSUKI
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Although it makes a bunch of dummy empty commit, a dump file contains
> empty revisions can increase youngest revision number keeping content
> of the tree empty.
>
> e.g. A shell script to make a repositoy contains
> 10 empty revisions:
> [[[
> #!/bin/sh
>
> repos_uuid='c68ffc52-e6c1-4053-9b3b-6e67a0e223f2'
> rev0_date='2023-09-01T10:22:50.036256Z' # This should be just 27 letters.
> number_of_commits=10
>
> produce_dump()
> {
> cat <<DUMP_HEAD_END
> SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 2
>
> UUID: ${repos_uuid}
>
> Revision-number: 0
> Prop-content-length: 56
> Content-length: 56
>
> K 8
> svn:date
> V 27
> ${rev0_date}
> PROPS-END
>
> DUMP_HEAD_END
>
> rev=0
> while [ $rev -lt $1 ]; do
> rev=$(($rev+1))
> cat <<REV_END
> Revision-number: $rev
> Prop-content-length: 10
> Content-length: 10
>
> PROPS-END
>
> REV_END
> done
> }
>
> svnadmin create new_repo
> produce_dump "${number_of_commits}" | svnadmin load -q new_repo
> svnadmin info new_repo
> ]]]

Thank you. This is very similar to our current solution. It would
however be nice to avoid a lot of empty commits, hence my
engagement in this list asking for alternative solutions.

But perhaps there are none.

Best regards
Magnus Lyrberg