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Re: How to solve svnadmin load "File already exists" error?

From: Dennis Jones <djones_at_grassvalleysoftware.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:53:14 -0700

Anyone? Really? No one knows anything about this?

- Dennis

"Dennis Jones" <djones_at_grassvalleysoftware.com> wrote in message
news:j1shsm$lbu$1_at_dough.gmane.org...
> Hi,
>
> I used rsvndump to dump a remote repository (because the server is running
> an old version of SVN from before support for 'replay' was added). Now I
> am trying to load the dump file into my local repository (VisualSVN 2.1.9)
> and I'm getting the following error:
>
>
> * adding path : trunk/SomePath/SomeFile.zip ...svnadmin: File already
> exists: filesystem 'E:\Repositories\Archive\db', transaction '3186-2gi',
> path 'trunk/SomePath/SomeFile.zip'
>
>
> Interestingly, it looks like it fails at revision 3186, but a glance at
> the output shows:
>
> ------- Committed revision 3186 >>>
>
> <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 3187
>
> So why is the transaction for 3186 still there?
>
> This is my second attempt at doing this, and I got the same error (in the
> same place) the first time. The dump file is almost 5GB in size and the
> dump takes about 3 days to complete, so I'm not keen on doing it again,
> and I doubt it will help anyway.
>
> Of course, I started with an empty repository on the local server, so it's
> not like it already had data in it. So how can I get around this?
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
Received on 2011-08-19 15:54:11 CEST

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