svnsync: properties not always copied?

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Hi,

I keep an svnsync'd mirror of my svn repository, and I run a very
stringent verification check: I do an "svnadmin dump" on the original and
the mirror, and demand that they have the same md5sum. It is paranoid,
but paranoia is good when it comes to backups!

Problem is, in some situation that I haven't nailed down, some properties
don't seem to get set in the svnsync'd version. I think it happens when I
make a tag, ie, copy a directory, that has properties set. For example,
in the "svnadmin dump":

--------------------------------------------------------
Node-path: tags/nova/2013-11-04-1
Node-kind: dir
Node-action: add
Node-copyfrom-rev: 24017
Node-copyfrom-path: trunk/src/astrometry
Prop-content-length: 92
Content-length: 92

K 10
svn:ignore
V 6
*.pyc

K 13
svn:mergeinfo
V 30
/tags/nova/2012-06-27-2:21009*
PROPS-END
--------------------------------------------------------

in the svnsync'd mirror:

--------------------------------------------------------
Node-path: tags/nova/2013-11-04-1
Node-kind: dir
Node-action: add
Node-copyfrom-rev: 24017
Node-copyfrom-path: trunk/src/astrometry
--------------------------------------------------------

This sounds a bit like closed issue 4184:
   http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4184

I am using subversion-1.8.4.

For what it's worth, the mirror is on another machine and connects via
svn+ssh. This svn repo was created in 2005, and is format "3" (versions
1.5+).

Unfortunately, I was unable to create a simple test case demonstrating the
problem, so maybe it is some more complicated circumstance than the
properties and directory copy, or maybe it has to do with having an old
repo?

Any hints on what could trigger this would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
--dustin
Received on 2013-11-18 18:14:17 CET