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Is the "svnadmin dump" format documented somewhere? I want to record a datastructure containing all the metadata for a svn repository, which is essentially the same stuff in the "dump" file except for the file contents itself.

Seems like the svnkit library would have it, or have a way to obtain this metadata programmatically, but I've been running around the svnkit javadoc for the last hour and can't find a way to get what I need without going through more trouble than just parsing the svnadmin dump file myself.

+2  A: 

Here you go: SVN Dump File Format Specification

MitMaro
doh! how did I miss finding that?
Jason S
I knew the exact phrase to search for and I still had trouble finding it. Its well hidden, lol.
MitMaro
+2  A: 

there is a grammar of the subversion dump file format at http://www.cubewano.org/blacktackle/wiki/SubversionTools (via http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html). you might also check out the svn-dump2dir and svn-dir2dump (and the other) scripts there.

ax
sweet, thanks for the links.
Jason S