Re: Accessing really old SVN repo

>> Any thoughts on how I can access this repo? If it looks like something
>> broken, how about at least accessing the HEAD?
>
> Subversion 1.9.3 had a bug where it made incorrect assumptions about old
> repositories without a "db/format" file. This is the most likely cause for
> the errors you're seeing.
>
> This bug has been fixed starting from version 1.9.5, so you might want
> to try accessing the repository with a more recent version. Alternatively,
> you should be able to use any of the 1.8.x versions, as they didn't have
> this bug.

Stefan also suggested a more recent version. I built 1.10.0-rc2 from the
source tarball, the repo now verifies clean, and I am able to perform a
checkout. Based on those data points I believe that should take care of it.

Thank you both for your insight and suggestions!!!

Terry
Received on 2018-04-11 07:59:16 CEST