Re: Change svn:mergeinfo property on an old revision of the repository (history) which has an invalid syntax

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Torsten Krah <krah.tm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> unfortunately trying to svnsync a repository i discovered that there is
> an invalid revision in the repository having a wrong svn:mergeinfo
> property, instead of
>
> 1280-1282 it has 1282-1280
>
> "Commit rejected because mergeinfo on '/branch' is syntactically
> invalid"
>
> The client we're using t sync is version 1.9.7. The source server is
> 1.6.17.
>
> What's the best way to fix only those broken revision? Is there some way
> to fix this property in the history? Or is there some way to fix that on
> the fly? Any suggestions welcome.

I'm not sure how this would have happened (perhaps by manually editing
/ setting the mergeinfo property by the person who made that commit?).

I don't have any experience with this kind of problem, but perhaps
this tool could help you:

https://github.com/jwiegley/svndumptool

It has several features for manipulating / fixing svn dump files.

-- 
Johan