Hi,
On 4/10/2018 8:09 PM, "Zow" Terry Brugger wrote:
Good day,
I have a SVN repo that I probably have not touched in seven or eight
years (and I won't claim that the server was up to date at that time).
I have mounted the disk with the repo on a new server (Ubuntu 16), but
am having some issues accessing the contents. Here is the repo info:
$ svnadmin info /home/repos
Path: /home/repos
UUID: 8a0b9f2b-ae37-0410-8d94-9d817d00ed75
Repository Format: 3
Compatible With Version: 1.1.0
Filesystem Type: fsfs
Filesystem Format: 1
FSFS Sharded: no
FSFS Logical Addressing: yes
Configuration File: /home/repos/db/fsfs.conf
This doesn't look quite right to me at first glance... FSFS logical
addressing was added in 1.9 and was certainly not available with format
3 then. That might however just be an issue with the presented output
not being correct rather than pointing to some actual issue.
But if I try to do a checkout of it:
$ svn co file:///home/repos
svn: E125012: Invalid character in hex checksum
And if I try to do the same from my workstation:
$ svn co svn+ssh://svnserver/home/repos
svn: E125012: Invalid character in hex checksum
At least that's consistent. Consequently I went to check the integrity
of the repo:
zow@ten:~/convert 791 $ svnadmin verify /home/repos
* Error verifying revision 0.
svnadmin: E200004: Could not convert '/
17' into a number
Well, that does not seem good. So I did some investigation and it
sounded like old versions of repos need to be upgraded to work with
the latest svn clients, and the safe way to do this is to dump and
load the repo, but when I try to do that:
$ svnadmin dump /home/repos > /tmp/repos.dump
* Dumped revision 0.
svnadmin: E160004: Invalid revision footer
I did a lot of searching on these errors as well as looking for
information on accessing old SVN repos to no avail, which seems odd
given that SVN has been around a while now, I would expect more people
to hit these sorts of issues. I am running
$ svn --version
svn, version 1.9.3 (r1718519)
compiled Aug 10 2017, 16:59:15 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
on both my server and workstation.
Any thoughts on how I can access this repo? If it looks like something
broken, how about at least accessing the HEAD?
I am not subscribed, so I would appreciate a cc on any responses!
Thanks in advance!
Terry
I recall there' were some fixes related to some old repositories in 1.10
(which is currently in RC2) but skimming quickly through it I didn't
find a related note in the changelog directly.
Still, maybe worth a shot to see what svnadmin verify reports with the
1.10-version. If you have a windows machine, there's a prebuild 1.10
build available here [1] (disclaimer, I'm the maintainer/developer
behind that one). I'd also have a prebuild 1.10.0-rc2 build lying around
which hasn't been released yet, but I'd be able to make it available to
you, if that helps.
[1] http://www.luke1410.de/typo3/index.php?id=97
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