"Stephen Butler" <sbut...@elego.de> wrote in message news:e19fc591-322d-4775-8d5f-9bea8b791...@elego.de...
>On Aug 19, 2011, at 18:45 , Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On 8/19/2011 11:20 AM, Dennis Jones wrote: >> >>> >>>> I would suggest to compare what actually is in that revision in the >>>> old and new repository. Do they match, or anything differs? >>> >>> There is no new repository. I am trying to create a new, clean >>> repository >>> from the old server (of which I only have remote access). >> >> Your new, clean repository should have the contents up to the commit that >> failed. Okay, then I will take a look and report back. >You could compare the histories of the problematic file (and its parent >directories) in the two repositories. I'll bet there's some moves and >replacements there, as Konstantin suggests. > >Does rsvndump support moved/replaced items? I'm sure it's not >trivial. I would assume so. I believe there are plenty of moves/branches/tags that occured prior to the revision where the error occurred. >> But, it might be easier to use svnsync to do this. > >According to the original post, the old repository doesn't support svnsync. That is correct. The server is pre 1.4. - Dennis
