py-svndump is a python module (named svndump) for parsing and altering the
output from svnadmin dump before loading it into a repository with svnadmin load.
The reason it exists was that I needed a way to filter out svn:mergeinfo from a huge dump-file before loading it to make the size of the repository smaller.
See parser for a simple skeleton for reading a dump file from standard input
and writing it unaltered to standard output.
By adding the following to the for-loop we can change the author for all commits done by "erik" to "erijo" and delete all mergeinfo.
if isinstance(record, RevisionRecord):
try:
if record.properties["svn:author"] == "erik":
record.properties["svn:author"] = "erijo"
except KeyError:
assert record.headers[record.REVISION_NUMBER_HEADER] == "0"
elif (isinstance(record, NodeRecord)
and record.properties is not None):
try:
del record.properties["svn:mergeinfo"]
except KeyError:
pass