I want to sync/copy a single project out of a moderate large SVN repo using the (usual) sequence
svnadmin create %mirror%
rem make insecure dummy hook
echo rem dummy > %mirror%\hooks\pre-revprop-change.bat
svnsync init %mirror_url% http://svn/original/...
svnsync sync %mirror_url%
This works but takes long time, see related question. In fact I do not need any revisions prior to e.g. r=17830. And the real problem is that the original repo seems to be corrupt before this revision and I can't convert it to hg, so I try to workaround ...
Question: Is there a way to fake the newly created repo (after 4th line) so it "believes" it has revision 17830 already and continues with newer ones. (Maybe some propset magic?) There are no changes in the project/folder before that revision.
From my experiments based and helped by the answers, I believe this is not possible.