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Re: SVN Totally Hosed

From: William Nagel <bill_at_stagelogic.com>
Date: 2005-08-22 23:41:36 CEST

On Aug 22, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Phil Manicyrck wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Migration of the repository from SVN to VSS 2005 has been running for
> several hours before bombing out from "atlsafe" (title of unhandled
> exception messge box) with error 0x80004005: E_FAIL. I believe this is
> originating from the VSS automation object model as my VB Script I
> crafted together from MSDN and web searches, makes heavy use of the
> VSS COM objects. Does the SVN command line tool use COM and if so
> could E_FAIL be originating from there?

No, the SVN command line tool does not use COM.

>
> Also, I am not able to access the SVN repository anymore. From looking
> at the worker .bat batch files called from the master converter, a
> Monad shell script, placeholders I think I mixed up some % signs and I
> called the SVN command line tool with some erroneous parameters, at
> least parameters that are not defined.

Any idea what commands you called it with? There's not much anyone
can do to help without that info.

Calling svn with a non-existent command shouldn't be able to hurt
your repository, and there shouldn't be any way to hose a repository
through the svn command even if you pass garbage to an existing
command. You might be able to screw it up if you pass garbage to an
svnadmin command but even that should be fairly safe. Of course, I'm
sure you're working from a backup of the repository, so your best bet
is probably just to fix the problems in your conversion script and
start over again.

I'd suggest having your conversion script operate on a dump of the
Subversion repository, rather than manipulating the repository itself
(that's a much easier way to get at all of the data in a
repository). If the repository is too big for a single dump to be
wieldy, you can use --incremental to get successive dumps of revision
ranges.

-Bill

>
> Thanks much,
> Phil Manicyrck, MCAD/MCSD.NET/MCSE
>
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