On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 22:18, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > On Mar 12, 2010, at 14:08, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Ricardo Coelho wrote: >>> >> >>> We have a SVN server on Solaris 8 with many repositories. >>> To migrate, I do dumps. But for one repository, I have a "Revision file >>> lacks trailing newline" error. >>> >>> The server's version is 1.4.3. >> >> Hm, svn 1.4 is actually not supported anymore (meaning there won't be >> any 1.4.x releases anymore). Of course some people on this list may be >> able to still help you, but I suggest that you upgrade your server as >> soon as you can (but maybe that's what you're doing now actually). >> >> I don't really know what you can/should do with this error. But, >> pragmatically, I'd try to simply add a trailing newline to that >> particular revision file and see if it helps (of course make a backup >> copy of that rev file first). >> >> If that doesn't help, maybe the tool fsfsverify can help fix the >> revision file (it seems to be able to handle/fix some forms of rev >> file corruption). Google will help you find it. > > I see no reason to assume just the newline is missing from the revision; most > likely, other critical information is missing as well. Can you restore this > revision from your backups? > >
Finally, I looked a bit the "revs" file, it was corrupted (cut ...). Since it was a fork of an another repository i backuped this file from the "original" repository. Then, everything worked. Sorry for disturbance
