In all commands, the -r (or --range) option limits the selection of revisions over which an operation will be performed. A selection consists of one or more comma-separated ranges. A range may consist of an integer revision number or the special name HEAD for the head revision. Or it may be a colon-separated pair of integers, or an integer followed by a colon followed by HEAD.

Normally, each subcommand produces a progress spinner on standard error; each turn means another revision has been filtered. The -q (or --quiet) option suppresses this.

Generally, if you need to use this program at all, you will find that you need to pipe your dump file through multiple instances of it doing one kind of operation each. This is not as expensive as it sounds; with the exception of the reduce subcommand, the working set of this program is bounded by the size of the largest commit metadata item. It does not need to hold the entire repo metadata in memory.

The following subcommands are available:

help

Without arguments, list available commands. With a command-name argument, show detailed help for that subcommand.

select

The 'select' subcommand selects a range and permits only revisions in that range to pass to standard output. A range beginning with 0 includes the dumpfile header.

propset

Set a property to a value. May be restricted by a revision selection. You may specify multiple property settings. See the embedded help for syntax details.

propdel

Delete the named property. May be restricted by a revision selection. You may specify multiple properties to be deleted. See the embedded help for syntax details.

proprename

Rename a property. May be restricted by a revision selection. You may specify multiple properties to be renamed. See the embedded help for syntax details.

log

enerate a log report, same format as the output of svn log on a repository, to standard output.

setlog

Replace the log entries in the input dumpfile with the corresponding entries in a specified file, which should be in the format of an svn log output. Replacements may be restricted to a specified range. See the embedded help for syntax details.

squash

The 'squash' subcommand merges adjacent commits that have the same author and log text and were made within 5 minutes of each other. This can be helpful in cleaning up after migrations from file-oriented revision control systems, or if a developer has been using a pre-2006 version of Emacs VC. See the embedded help for syntax details.

strip

Replace content with unique generated cookies on all node paths matching the specified regular expressions; if no expressions are given, match all paths. Useful when you need to examine a particularly complex node structure.

expunge

Delete all operations with Node-path headers matching specified Python regular expressions. Any revision left with no Node records after this filtering has its Revision record removed as well.

pathrename

Modify Node-path headers matching a specified Python regular expression; replace with a given string. The string may contain Pyton backreferences to parenthesized portions of the pattern. See the embedded help for syntax details.

renumber

Renumber all revisions, patching Node-copyfrom headers as required. Any selection option is ignored. Takes no arguments.

reduce

Strip revisions out of a dump so the only parts left those likely to be relevant to a conversion problem. See the embedded help for syntax details and the relevance filter.