Re: Is there a way to dump the checksums from a svn repo?

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Thorsten Schöning
<tschoening_at_am-soft.de> wrote:
> Guten Tag olli hauer,
> am Mittwoch, 28. November 2012 um 22:45 schrieben Sie:
>
>> Someone hacks one of the additional mirrors, modifies a revision and adjust the
>> checksum (as described on many places how-to fix a corrupt repo) so it looks OK
>> even with svnadmin verify.
>
> Sounds interesting, but if the mirrors not under your full control
> already have been hacked how can you trust the locally produced
> checksums by svnadmin? You can't as you can't trust the mirror in any
> way, svnadmin could be manipulated, too, you would need to get the
> data to a trustful environment again and check it from there.

For things where the file representation is the same, I just use an
'rsync -nv' against a known-good copy to verify integrity and it runs
pretty quickly. But, the copy built by svnsync doesn't necessarily
get stored the same way, does it?

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com