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AW: Corrupted FSFS commit

From: Kutter, Martin <martin.kutter_at_siemens.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:29:24 +0100

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Kutter, Martin wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 at 13:29 +0100:
> > I got a strange error in one of our subversion
> > repositories: On checking
> > out a file from revision 3865 on, svn reports "Svndiff
> > contains a too-large window".
>
> This is the error message added in 1.6.4 as part of the security fix
> then. You may want to try a 1.6.3 server (the last release *without*
> the security fix).

This is what I found on the web on this message. However, the commit
was performed using client and server >= 1.6.4, and a modified svnadmin
(reporting the numbers checked along with the error message) clearly
shows some kind of overflow: The reported numbers are unstable, and
flip between positive and negative values.
Testing with 1.6.3, which has the security error, seems not very
appealing: First, I think that the error should have been reported
on commit, not on checkout. Moreover, it's quite unlikely that 1.6.3
will be able to handle the revision file correctly - it's much more
likely that the revision will trigger the security error.

I'm afraid the commit just got corrupted somehow - is there a way to
remove/replace it in the repository?

Regards,

Martin
Received on 2010-02-26 10:30:03 CET

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