Hello,
I got a strange error in one of our subversion repositories: On checking
out a file from revision 3865 on, svn reports "Svndiff contains a too-large window".
The same error is reported by "svnadmin verify" and "svnadmin dump".
Server OS is RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (64 bit)
Subversion server is 1.6.5 built from a slightly modified the Fedora Core 12 Source RPM
using the sqlite amalgamation
SVN client used was TortoiseSVN 1.6.6 (probably on XP, not sure)
Repository type is FSFS
Repository layout is sharded
The repository as a hole has a size of around 5GB
db/revs/7/3865 is 210MB in size, a backup of the file from the night after the
commit contains a file with no differences.
The revision in question contains two added binary files of around 102MB in size.
The file which cannot be checked out is one of these files.
All other files added or updated in this revision can be checked out.
In the current state, the repository cannot be dumped - when reaching the corrupted
revision, svnadmin aborts with "Svndiff contains a too-large window".
Is there some way to recover the checked-in file?
Can the file in question be removed from this revision?
Or can the complete revision be replaced somehow?
Thanks a lot,
Martin Kutter
Siemens AG
Siemens IT Solutions and Services
Global Operations
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Received on 2010-02-25 13:48:32 CET