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Re: Recovering repository with multiple missing rev/ files

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:07:58 +0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)

Eiren Smith wrote on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 at 23:24 -0000:
> On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Eiren Smith wrote:
>
> > On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:49:44AM -0400, Eiren Smith wrote:
> > > > Sir:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your reply. I'll read those references you cited.
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > P.S. Other files may also be missing from the revprops/ dir, not
> > > > > > just 7437 -- If I'm willing to lose commit messages, can I live
> > > > > > without some revprops/ files?
> > > > >
> > > > > You should recreate the revprops for all revisions.
> > > >
> > > > I have emails messages (from SubversionNotify) containing the commit
> > > > comments for six of seven of those revisions. If I can rebuild the
> > > > repository with some revprops/ files missing, I can edit the
> > > > comments later. Will this work?
> > >
> > > Sure, that will work. You'll need to do a manual commit of the changes
> > > made in lost revisions, and then tweak the revision properties after the
> > > commit is done. See also the 'svnadmin setrevprop' command, which will
> > > help you to set the revision properties (svn:date, svn:author, and
> > > svn:log).
> > >
> > > Stefan
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > I won't be able to accurately mimic the seven missing changes as most of
> > them were for binary files (project documentation and some DLLs).
> >
> > Instead, is there a way to simply say "All future revisions that depend
> > upon these seven revisions are dead/null" so I can piece the repo back
> > together with just that minor loss?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > /eiren
>
>
> Anyone:
>
> Any ideas about how to handle this since I can't mimic the changes to the
> binary files modified in the missing revs?
>

Patch svnadmin to skip those particular files (hard-code them) when
parsing a dumpfile?

> Sorry if nudging this is bad form for this list.
>
> /eiren
>
Received on 2010-06-18 09:07:44 CEST

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