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

From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:45:24 +0100

Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:35:24 +0200:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Philip Martin
> <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> That fully explains why I see those flags in my repos.
> Now, svnadmin verify will report them as corrupted.

Could svnamdin report them via warnings rather than via fatal errors?
They are harmless after all so I think they shouldn't mask "real"
corruptions.
Received on 2012-07-31 10:46:07 CEST

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