Svn: dump format documentation?

Question

Is the svnadmin dump format documented? I want to write a data structure containing all the metadata for the svn repository, which is essentially the same material in the dump file, except for the contents of the file.

It looks like the svnkit library would have this or have a way to get this metadata programmatically, but I tried svnkit javadoc for the last hour and cannot find a way to get what I need through more problems than parsing the svnadmin dump file itself .

Answer 1

Here you go: SVN dump format specification

Answer 2

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