On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:19:13PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > But then I ran svnsync again and it gave me broken revisions again: > > $ svnsync sync file:///$PWD/zope-mirror > $ svnlook author -r 129030 zope-mirror/ | wc -c > 1 > > And then I noticed that r129027 also became broken in this new mirror, > but was fine in the old one: > > $ svnlook author -r 129027 zope-mirror/ | wc -c > 1 > $ svnlook author -r 129027 zope-mirror.BROKEN/ | wc -c > 4 > > I was doing this with a copy of the broken mirror on my laptop, which > has svnsync version 1.7.5 (r1336830). > > I guess this answers your question from upthread: > > > It would be interesting to know if this problem also appears with > > svnsync from 1.7. > > Sadly, yes.
It is possible that authz rules prohibit access to the path affected by the revision. In which case svnsync would silently omit that path.