Short version: it's a bug in Google's backend, and I can reproduce it with neon but not with serf.
(more below) Ryan Schmidt wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 16:24:20 -0500: > The Pure project is trying to switch from Subversion to Mercurial, and are > having trouble with svnsync. > > http://groups.google.com/group/pure-lang/msg/bf588ebe14d6fb14 > > On revision 2967, it gives the message "Observed changes didn't match count", > and I get the same message when just doing an "svn log -v" on that revision: > > $ svn log -v -r2967 http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/svn/trunk > svn: Observed changes didn't match count [[[ % $svn log -v -r2967 http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/svn/trunk --config-option servers:global:http-library=serf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ % echo $? 0 % $svn log -v -r2967 http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/svn/trunk --config-option servers:global:http-library=neon ... subversion/libsvn_ra_neon/util.c:773: (apr_err=160004) svn: Observed changes didn't match count % echo %? 1 % ./tools/dev/which-error.py 160004 00160004 SVN_ERR_FS_CORRUPT % $svn --version | head -n2 svn, version 1.7.0 (dev build) compiled Oct 27 2010, 15:38:01 % ]]] > $ > > "svn log" without "-v" works fine, as does "svn diff". > > Google searching for this error message yields only one other occurrence, > which was not really solved. > > I'm unsure what we should try from here. Possibly this error is unique > to Google Code's Subversion backend, The error code confirms your suspicion. Furthermore, the word "Observed" doesn't appear in Subversion's source code. > but still I would have expected > others to have run into it. Any suggestions? > > >
