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

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 18:13:33 +0300

Philip Martin wrote on Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 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.
>

And 'svn up --set-depth exclude'? Would that also work?

> --
> Philip
Received on 2011-07-01 17:14:39 CEST

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