[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: can't read length line in file %s

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-08-29 22:11:55 CEST

On Aug 29, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Miha Vitorovic wrote:

> One quick question, in case I ever need it...
>
> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote on 29.08.2005 16:38:25:
>
>>
>> It looks like your r143 file is corrupted somehow...? Do you have a
>> backup? If so, you might try replacing the r143 file from backup.
>>
>>
>
> How do I do that? Do I simply "svnadmin load" the part of the
> repository
> dump that contains needed revision, or is it more complicated than
> that?
>

In your FSFS repository, each revision is just a single file in the
repos/db/revs/ directory. I'm talking about literally replacing the
file named '143' with one from an older backup, presumably with a
copy that's not corrupted. You don't need any subversion tools to do
this, just your operating system.

-- 
www.collab.net  <>  CollabNet  |  Distributed Development On Demand
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Mon Aug 29 22:14:28 2005

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Users mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.