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Version Control with Subversion
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Version Control with Subversion

by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato
June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
319 pages
12h 58m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 5: Repository Administration
recover
Perform recovery steps on a repository that is in need of such, generally after a
fatal error has occurred that prevented a process from cleanly shutting down its
communication with the repository.
rmtxns
Cleanly remove Subversion transactions from the repository (conveniently fed by
output from the
lstxns subcommand).
setlog
Replace the current value of the svn:log (commit log message) property on a
given revision in the repository with a new value.
verify
Verify the contents of the repository. This includes, among other things, check-
sum comparisons of the versioned data stored in the repository.
svndumplter
Since Subversion stores everything in an opaque database system, attempting man-
ual tweaks is unwise, if not quite difficult. And once data has been stored in your
repository, Subversion generally doesn’t really provide an easy way to remove that
data.
*
Inevitably, however, there will be times when you would like to manipulate
the history of your repository. You might need to strip out all instances of a file that
was accidentally added to the repository (and shouldn’t be there for whatever rea-
son). Or, perhaps you have multiple projects sharing a single repository, and you
decide to split them up into their own repositories. To accomplish ...
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