How to extract an SVN dump?

svn svndump
Brooke picture Brooke · Jul 10, 2011 · Viewed 16k times · Source

I received an SVN dump file with a lot of pages (all HTML pages, and all server-side code as well) in the file. I'd to separate them out, but have no clue how to do this.

I'm on windows and I don't get SVN at all.

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Guillaume picture Guillaume · Mar 7, 2014

The answer by Adam Butler is nearly perfect, but I got a few problems with it, so here is my working solution :

In a DOS windows (Use ConEmu for a better one) 

First cd to your svn folder tools
mkdir d:\dumpRepo
svnadmin create d:\dumpRepo
type [PATH TO DUMP].dump | svnadmin load d:\dumpRepo
svn export file:///d:/dumpRepo d:\Exportedfiles

It's really important that the file URI for svn export contains only regular /

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