Re: Unable to parse reversed revision range

Trent Fisher <trent.fisher_at_oracle.com> writes:

> Is this a known problem (fixed since 1.8.9) or is there a workaround?

Issue 4414 applies:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4414

Your particular case is fixed by r1643074 and proposed for the next 1.8:

$ svnadmin create repo
$ svnmucc -mm -U file://`pwd`/repo mkdir A propset svn:mergeinfo /B:1-3 A
$ svnadmin create repo2
$ svnadmin dump repo | sed 's/1-3/3-1/' | svnadmin load repo2
svnadmin: E200020: Unable to parse reversed revision range '3-1'

$ svnadmin dump repo | sed 's/1-3/3-1/' | svnadmin load repo2 --bypass-prop-validation
WARNING 0x0005: Invalid svn:mergeinfo value; leaving unchanged
------- Committed revision 1

$ svnlook propget repo2 svn:mergeinfo A
/B:3-1

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