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Re: svnadmin verify rev 0 always succeeds?

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:42:59 -0600

kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote on 01/17/2008 03:53:52 PM:
> kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote on 01/17/2008 03:24:29 PM:
> > I was trying to purposely corrupt a test repository to test my nightly

> > repo verification scripts.
> >
> > However, I noticed rev 0 in the repo does not seem to ever be
verified.
> Is
> > this by design?
> > I would imagine it is identical for every repo created, but the
svnadmin
>
> > verify command
> > indicates it is verifying revision 0.
> >
> > Reproduction recipe:
> >
> > $ svnadmin create test_repo
> > $ svnadmin verify test_repo
> > * Verified revision 0.
> > $ rm -f test_repo/dv/revs/0
> > $ svnadmin verify test_repo
> > * Verified revision 0.
> > $ echo garbage > test_repo/db/revs/0
> > $ svnadmin verify test_repo
> > * Verified revision 0.
> >
> > Does the contents of revision 0 really not ever matter?
>
> Minor typo when copying to the email. The rm command should have been:
>
> $ rm -f test_repo/db/revs/0

Guess I really should have dug into the source a little.
(libsvn_repos/dump.c around line 980)

It does appear that a dump does not use the true rev 0, but creates a
default one. Because of this, 'svnadmin verify' will never catch
a rev 0 corruption.

However, if rev 0 is corrupted, you may have problems using the repo:

$ svn mkdir file:///tmp/test_repo/trunk -m"trunk"
svn: No such revision 0

$ echo garbage > test_repo/db/revs/0
$ svn mkdir file:///tmp/test_repo/trunk -m"trunk"
svn: Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/test_repo/db/revs/0':
Invalid argument

A "simple" fix/workaround in this case would be:

$ svnadmin dump test_repo > test_repo.dump
$ mv test_repo test_repo_old
$ svnadmin create test_repo
$ svnadmin load test_repo < test_repo.dump

Not sure this is important enough for a bug report, but I wanted to make
sure the workaround was documented in the mailing list.

Should the dump routine be getting the actual contents of rev 0 instead
of just creating a default one?

Kevin R.

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