I have a repo with many OmniGraffle docs that had their own icon file. They all bork the admin load.

Best way to find all Icon files is:

grep "^Node-path: .*/Icon" repo.dump

I then used a multi-line argument call to dumpfilter to exclude all the Icon paths in one call:

dumpfilter \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Garment Meeting 20050601.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Inspector/Fabric Order Inspector.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Inspector/Inspector Sheets.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Reports/Testing.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Wizard/Fabric/New Fabric Order.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Wizard/Fabric/New Fabric Supplier.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Wizard/Fabric/New Fabric.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Wizard/Wizard Template.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Reports/Fabric/Workspace Reports.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Inspector/Fabric/Fabric Inspector.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Inspector/Fabric/Supplier Inspector.graffle/Icon” \ exclude “Project/Diagrams/Reports/Fabric/Detail Report.graffle/Icon” \ < repo.dump \ > repo.filtered.dump

Sadly, there were several people I didn’t get to meet, and I guess you’re one of them. Maybe next year…

I didn’t have that many either (about 3 files each in 2 repositories). But the dump/filter process took so long (large repositories) that I didn’t want to dork about.

Your blog page is great, going into more detail about the problem. The only problem with it is that you can’t always find the Icon files by doing a checkout. My icon files were in a directory that had previously been deleted – but the dump file was still corrupt (I had aactually deleted them from one repository and moved them to another). You really do have to scan the dump file for the files themselves.

(and to never do it again, set the global-ignore option in your ~/.subversion/config file to Icon*)

Blog entry with my woes on the issue