RE: Recover a corrupt repository

> Oh yes. Backing up the just-committed revision in the
> post-commit hook right after it's been created is a great
> idea. It's recommended often on this list when people
> encounter these problems. "svnadmin dump --incremental" used
> to be the recommendation for these cases.
> Now that we have "svnsync", that may be easier and/or more useful.

Be *very* careful using svnsync in a post-commit script directly. The locking
method does not really work properly, and if two users commit simultaneously,
the target repository becomes broken. This has happened to me.

I worked around it by writing a small daemon process that listens for
incoming TCP/IP connections on a port and runs svnsync as a result. The post-
commit hook just makes this connection. That guarantees that only one svnsync
will run at a time.

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Jon Ashley
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