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Re: wc-ng and recoverability of corrupt wc's

From: Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:26:34 +0100

Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> writes:

> AFAICS, this will no longer be possible with wc-ng. Has anyone thought
> about this problem? Any ideas on how one could recover "cheaply" from
> a small (local to a single directory or file) corruption in the wc
> (either incorrect meta-data, or corrupt pristine, or ...)?

Corrupt pristine can be recovered by doing:

$ svn up -r0 wc/some/path
$ svn up wc

That will also work for some, but by no means all, instances of corrupt
metadata.

-- 
Philip
Received on 2011-07-01 15:31:30 CEST

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