From: Stephen Waits <steve@...>
Date: 2006-04-04T09:13:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Using File.open block to manage svnadmin dump stream

Brad C. wrote:
> # The following block results in bad dump files, not accepted by 
> svnadmin load
> File.open("path/to/todays/dumpfile", "a") do |file|
>   file << `svnadmin dump "path/to/repository" -r #{revision} 
> --incremental`
> end
> 
> # However, a strait command expression does work, like
> `svnadmin dump "path/to/repository" -r #{revision} --incremental >> 
> "path/to/todays/dumpfile"`

Can you do it both ways and then diff the two files to see what's 
actually different?

Also, try using write (or, failing that, puts) instead of << to output 
to the file.

--Steve