Re: Possible svnsync data loss bug?

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Trent Fisher <trent.fisher_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> I just ran into a rather frightening problem.  We do replications via
> svnsync for backup purposes.  I just found two of the replicated
> repositories which had these entries for *every* version:
>
>  r20927 | (no author) | (no date) | 1 line
>  Changed paths:
>
> And svnlook tree shows there is nothing in the repositories.

I believe this matches the behavior you would get if you were using
path-based permissions and the svnsync user did not have read
permission to the paths in the revision. Could that be the reason?
You could also get this if you did not specify the URL to the root of
the repository. Any revision that does not touch the path you
specified would just sync an empty revision.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/