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Re: Funky edge-case bug in the repos loader.

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2002-06-08 10:25:18 CEST

Fixed in revision 2127.

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> Ben Collins-Sussman, you're gonna love this one. :-)
>
> After dumping and loading 2096 revisions of the Subversion repository
> from the old filesystem to the new, I decided to verify the results.
> That is, I want to make sure that I have the same revision history in
> the new repos that I had in the old.
>
> A run of all the revisions through `svnlook info' showed that indeed,
> the commit info for all revisions in the new repos was exactly the
> same as that in the old repos. Excellence.
>
> But a checkout of HEAD from both, and a recursive diff, came up
> short. Diff found differences between the old and new versions of
> `/trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline/getopt_tests_data/svn--help_stderr'.
>
> So I dug around a little bit. Here's the interesting part. In
> revision 1763, I removed the contents of that file, leaving a file of
> zero bytes. Now, how does that look in our dumpfile? Well, it looks
> like it has a Content-length of 0. And what does our loader do with
> that information? Nothing. But what it *should* do is to say, "Hey,
> all files have contents, even if those contents are empty." and set
> the file contents to zero length.
>
> I've coded the fix. Am testing now.
>
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