On 11/22/05, John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 04:54, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:10:33PM -0500, John Szakmeister wrote:
> > > a consequence though. In this case, it means that if the length of the
> > > svndiff was small for a file, that you can no longer dump that revision
> > > in your repository (it would error out on both svnadmin verify and
> > > svnadmin dump).
> >
> > If someone comes to svn-dev with a repository that 'works', but fails
> > verification due to this problem, how do we repair it, given that 'dump'
> > no longer works?
>
> The same we fix other issues: edit the backend data structures. Some of us
> have done this on the users@ list a number of times. :-)
>
> > I like the idea of flagging potential problems as soon as possible, but
> > not the idea of blocking 'svnadmin dump' when we don't really need to.
> > Is there any way we can convert this hard error into a warning? (Yes,
> > I realise that might be difficult, given that it's code in libsvn_repos,
> > not svnadmin itself).
>
> I'm not a fan of it either, but we already have a precedent for it. Change a
> byte in the plain text representation of a file, and you'll run into the same
> issue. *shrug*
Can we add a "--no-verify" flag or similar so that users can output
broken dumps for debugging purposes?
Cheers,
David
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David James -- http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~james
Received on Tue Nov 22 16:05:35 2005