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RE: disturbing, weird, reproducible repository error

From: John Szakmeister <jszakmeister_at_actelesys.com>
Date: 2003-09-09 15:29:31 CEST

> > Here is something I find a bit disturbing. On line 357233, we can
> > see branches/GD-2-1-callbacks/src/tools/shared-misc being added. At
> > line 357312, I see that very same node being deleted. The catch?
> > It's all occuring in rev 78. I can also see in the output of
> > 'svnadmin load' that indeed the path is being created and destroyed
> > in the same rev. My question is how does this happen?
>
> Aha! You solved the mystery, John. Thanks. I was too sleepy last
> night to read the dumpfile correctly. That exactly explains the
> repository that results from the dumpfile.
>
> Why is the dumpfile bogus? Because cvs2svn generated it, of course,
> and cvs2svn is still known to have bugs regarding branches & tags. No
> surprises here.

Whew, good to know. I thought this was a dump of a repository that was
created from scratch (i.e., not converted with cvs2svn), so I was getting a
little frightened. :-)

-John

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