Hello, I'm currently reworking backups of multiple SVN repositories. In the process I found out that one of those repositories has three broken revisions. The problem is that the revision files in the revs directory for those 3 revisions are of size 0 (those contain the actual data of the revision, as far as I understand). This means that I can't use svn dump (as it stops at that broken revision) and I can't use svnsync.
For the backup itself I can still use svn hotcopy (the previous way of doing a backup), so this will be my workaround. I was able to find out the affected paths in the repository and luckily the latest revision of those paths can be checked out without a problem (so we "only" lost history, not current data). But a broken repository is not desirable and I should attempt to fix it as much as possible. Losing the information of those three revisions (and a few related ones, probably) would not be a major problem, but the repository as a whole should be in a consistent state (to allow svnadmin dump to work, for example). Is there a way to remove the broken revisions and still keep the rest of the repository intact? Ideally without requiring everyone to make new clean checkouts because the repository became incompatible. regards Joachim Sauer P.S.: unfortunately there are no working backups of the broken revisions, as the corruption seems to be pretty old (older than our last full backup).
