Re: Lack of Subversion repository recovery tools

On 7/4/07, Andreas Hasenack <andreas@mandriva.com.br> wrote:

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> > But that's not what you asked. You asked Subversion to verify all
> > revisions. And it reported an error in revision 1. Which is correct,
> > because revision 1 was corrupted.
>
> And it stopped there, even though I asked it to verify all revisions.

You basically asked it: "Is the repository in good condition?" And it
answered "Sorry, no." And annotated that with "Because your revision 1
is broken."

> svnadmin dump also stops there, and I believe this was the original
> complaint.

Well that's a good thing :-) They're implemented using exactly the same code!

> The OP asked if there was a way for svnadmin verify to mark
> that revision as bad, skip it and let svnadmin dump dump the rest. It
> would be a waste if all the other 150k revisions didn't depend on this
> one and just because of this couldn't be dumped.

Ah! But this isn't true: you can dump them, but not with a single command...

As I'm on holidays, I can't verify it myself, but I've been told that
the trunk (1.5-dev) version of svnadmin verify supports
revision(range)s, so that this functionality is essentially available
with that version (all be it not with 1 Subversion command).

HTH,

Erik.

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Received on Wed Jul 4 16:06:46 2007