Re: Reconstructing a repository from revs/* files

On Mar 16, 2007, at 14:22, hajhouse wrote:

> It is possible to reconstruct a repository from the files in db/revs/
> alone? As far as I can tell all the files for all the revisions are
> present, but filesystem corruption destroyed all the other pieces
> of the
> database (fsfs format).

You'd almost certainly also need the contents of db/revprops/, one
file per revision, just like db/revs/.

> I have already the obvious (to me) method of creating a new empty fsfs
> repository, deleting the current file, and copying the revs/* files to
> the repository that I wish to reconstruct into the appropriate place,
> then running svnadmin recover. The svnadmin recover command returns
> success but the repository afterwards does not work:
>
> $ svn co file:///home/hajhouse/recover/REPO/
> svn: No such revision 891
>
> This is subversion 1.5. Any ideas would be appreciated!

Subversion 1.5 has not been released yet. Do you need a feature
that's being developed in Subversion 1.5, or could you be using the
most recently released version, 1.4.3?

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