Re: [Issue 4129] predecessors links on root node-revision skip revisions

Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrmann_at_wandisco.com> writes:

> Yesterday, I debugged the code and found out why r(N-2)
> would be reported. This was due to is-fresh-txn-root
> being set on some of the root noderevs. Some of the
> affected repositories don't use directory deltification.
> Maybe, I'm able to look deeper into how that might
> have happened.
>
> I think we found another form of corruption. Since the
> fix is simply to ignore the flag, the question is whether
> we may ignore it during (de-)serializing noderevs.

One way to set is-fresh-txn-root is to commit an empty rev:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4031

-- 
Philip