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

"Stephen Butler" <sbutler_at_elego.de> wrote in message
news:E19FC591-322D-4775-8D5F-9BEA8B79131A_at_elego.de...

>On Aug 19, 2011, at 18:45 , Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On 8/19/2011 11:20 AM, Dennis Jones wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> I would suggest to compare what actually is in that revision in the
>>>> old and new repository. Do they match, or anything differs?
>>>
>>> There is no new repository. I am trying to create a new, clean
>>> repository
>>> from the old server (of which I only have remote access).
>>
>> Your new, clean repository should have the contents up to the commit that
>> failed.

Okay, then I will take a look and report back.

>You could compare the histories of the problematic file (and its parent
>directories) in the two repositories. I'll bet there's some moves and
>replacements there, as Konstantin suggests.
>
>Does rsvndump support moved/replaced items? I'm sure it's not
>trivial.

I would assume so. I believe there are plenty of moves/branches/tags that
occured prior to the revision where the error occurred.

>> But, it might be easier to use svnsync to do this.
>
>According to the original post, the old repository doesn't support svnsync.

That is correct. The server is pre 1.4.

- Dennis
Received on 2011-08-19 19:26:05 CEST