Re: Problem migrating repo from windows to linux

On 8/23/07, Derek Gathright <drgath@gmail.com> wrote:
> I started with an svn repo on a windows box, and now I'm trying to migrate
> it to a linux box.
>
> I did your standard dump on the windows box:
> svnadmin dump /path/to/repo > reponame.dump
>
> Then I moved it to the linux box and ran:
> svnadmin load /path/to/repo ~/reponame.dump
>
> And I got this error:
> svnadmin: Malformed dumpfile header
>
>
> I've searched around and the only lead I have is that it has to do with how
> windows handles newlines compared to linux. Any ideas on fixing it?

The dumpfile format should make that a non-issue.

Is it possible the file just got corrupted when transferring it
between the systems? Have you tried creating a new dumpfile from the
Windows box & loading that into the Linux-hosted repository? How about
loading the dumpfile into another repository on the Windows box?

You did run svnadmin create /path/to/repo before attempting the load, right?

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Received on Fri Aug 24 03:01:00 2007