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Re: p42svn | svnadmin load gives bogus 'File already exists' error

From: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.kolinko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:44:45 +0400

2009/5/27 Ted Burghart <ted_at_tedb.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to move my SCM repository from perforce to svn and am being
> tripped up by what looks to me like a spurious error.
>
> My environment:
> - Perforce server: P4D/FREEBSD60X86/2007.3/152469 running on FreeBSD
> 7.0-RELEASE-p1 i686.
> - Subversion server: subversion-1.5.5 OpenBSD package on OpenBSD 4.5-
> stable i686.
> - p42svn.pl v0.21 on OS X 10.5.7 Intel with Perl 5.8.8,
> p4api-2008.2.199044 and p4perl-2008.2.
>
> Fortunately this repository isn't huge so I can experiment with the
> full dump and load at will.
>
> I create the dump with
>
>    ./p42svn.pl --branch //depot/prj=trunk/prj > /shared-mounts/
> scratch/p4repos2svn.dump
>
> And attempt the load with
>
>    rm -rf repos-name
>    svnadmin create repos-name
>    svnadmin load repos-name < /shared-mounts/scratch/p4repos2svn.dump
>
> Well into the load I get
>
>    <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 50
>    svnadmin: File already exists: filesystem 'repos-name/db',
> transaction '49-1d', path 'trunk/prj/www/domain-name/elements/err/'
>         * adding path : trunk/prj/www/domain-name/elements/err/ ...
>
> To cover a few questions that might come up:
> - Whether I use a shared network directory as shown or scp or rsync
> the dump file from the machine doing the extract to the machine doing
> the load makes no difference.
> - Combinations of --user, --munge-keywords and --convert-eol options
> to p42svn have no effect on the error.
> - Performing the load as root or as the user that runs svnserve has no
> effect on the error.
> - Performing the load with svnserve running or not has no effect on
> the error.
> - I've seen reference in this list to issues with duplicate revision
> numbers and have checked the dump file carefully - I do not find any
> such problems.
>
> I am not expert in svn dump files, but perusal of the file suggests a
> pretty straightforward format and I find no problems with munged-up
> transactions.  The first line of the dump file is "SVN-fs-dump-format-
> version: 1", which I presume identifies the file's schema.
>
> The point at which the load fails seems to be the first point at which
> the referenced path is mentioned, so it clearly should not yet exist:
>
> # grep -n -A8 -B1 trunk/prj/www/domain-name/elements/err/ /shared-
> mounts/scratch/p4repos2svn.dump
> 130580-
> 130581:Node-path: trunk/prj/www/domain-name/elements/err/
> 130582-Node-kind: dir
> 130583-Node-action: add
> 130584-Prop-content-length: 10
> 130585-Content-length: 10
> 130586-
> 130587-PROPS-END
> 130588-
> 130589:Node-path: trunk/prj/www/domain-name/elements/err/error-403.shtml
> 130590-Node-kind: file
> 130591-Node-action: add
> 130592-Text-content-length: 2131
> 130593-Text-content-md5: 3f53ff1af089de062bd9df2d0c48069c
> 130594-Prop-content-length: 10
> 130595-Content-length: 2141
> 130596-
> 130597-PROPS-END
> --
> 130654-
> 130655:Node-path: trunk/prj/www/domain-name/elements/err/error-404.shtml
> 130656-Node-kind: file
> 130657-Node-action: add
> 130658-Text-content-length: 2125
> 130659-Text-content-md5: 20997b158acc3c1db5d8496166574e76
> 130660-Prop-content-length: 10
> 130661-Content-length: 2135
> 130662-
> 130663-PROPS-END
>
> As you can see, the directory in question and the two files in it were
> added once and have not been touched since.  I am at a loss as to
> where I go from here and would greatly appreciate any assistance
> offered.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  - Ted
>

If you are interested, the documentation on dump format is here:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt

Just a thought:

Though it seems unlikely, but it might have the same cause as this one:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3119

If it is it, you may try with Subversion 1.4

> # grep -n -A8 -B1 trunk/prj/www/domain-name/elements/err/ /shared-
> mounts/scratch/p4repos2svn.dump

Can there be an identically named file, not directory?
If you repeat this search without '/' after 'err', is result the same?

Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko

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