Have you tried fsfsverify.py?

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On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Justin Georgeson <jgeorge...@lgc.com> wrote:

> I have a repo with >39k revisions. Last week, r39245 was committed, a merge 
> of a single file from trunk to branch. It is the HEAD revision of that file 
> on that branch. Turns out this revision is corrupt
>  
> [svnad...@hourdcm3 ~]$ svnadmin verify -r 39245 /repos/prowess
> svnadmin: Reading one svndiff window read beyond the end of the representation
>  
> I've searched from r30000 to HEAD in this repo and that's the only rev that 
> fails the verify. All our backup copies have the same issue too. I'm 
> wondering what our options for recovery are. Some suggestions we have come up 
> with internally are:
>  
> 1. Developer still has sandbox which reports the parent folder as updated, so 
> have him 'svn cat' the previous version and commit that, then re-commit the 
> changes from the corrupt revision
> 2. 'svn rm' the file from the server and re-add it (losing ancestry)
> 3. Some combination of svndump up to that revision, import to new repo, redo 
> that merge in new repo, overwrite the revision file with new one
> 4. delete revision file (seems like bad idea)
> 5. svn dump up to corrupt revision and everything after bad revision, merge 
> dumps, create new repo, redo merge
>  
> Is there something else we missed? Which of these seems like the 
> safest/easiest?
>  
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