svndumpfilter fails with "Invalid copy source path..." error

Question

I want to move part of my SVN repo offsite, onto an AWS instance & am following this page (Repository Maintenance)

I have taken a dump of the whole repo (Windows commands):

• svnadmin dump c:\repo > all_repo

Next is to filter it, to include only the project I am interested in (which is called "M1").

• type all_repo | svndumpfilter include M1 --drop-empty-revs > m1

I know this is correct, as I have done it on some of the other projects already.

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On this project, it breaks with the error indicated in the title of this post. The exact wording is:

svndumpfilter: Invalid copy source path '/Personal/Richard/M1_Config'

The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.

The folder that the error refers to is a configuration utility that I wrote and submitted under my personal folder, and it is not under the root/m1... folder at all. I do not want to include it in the filtered file, but do not know how to indicate this to the svn commands.

1. How can I correctly filter for the whole M1 folder and its children, while excluding the Personal/Richard/M1_Config folder entirely?
2. How can I be sure whether the exported file contains the correct information to correctly recreate the M1 folder on the remote SVN?

Answer 1

I've tried at least 4 different applications to do that, the only that really worked was using svndumpfilterIN :

svnadmin dump c:\repo > all_repo
svndumpfilter.py all_repo --repo=c:\repo --output-dump=m1 include M1

Here is my full answer on linux.

Here is what I tried and didn't worked :

• http://furius.ca/pubcode/pub/conf/bin/svndumpfilter3.html (from previous answer)
• Including the problematic path as said in another previous answer and here. Problem : I still have paths I do not want in the target dump
• svndumpsanitizer (I still have paths I do not want in the target dump also)