Rob Brandt wrote on Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 17:25:49 -0700:
> Hi;
>
> We have a new project, new repository and we are having a terrible time  
> getting it committed.  It's not a small project, about 50mb I think.
>
> When trying to commit, we get an error "svndiff has invalid header". The 
> commit will run for a few minutes and then get that error.  We've tried 

That error means the magic bytes at the start of the binary delta (which
is used to transmit new file-contents across the wire) are wrong.  They
should be "SVN\0" or "SVN\1".

I would start by checking your connection.  The specifics depends on what
method you use (file://, svn://, svn+ssh://, http://, https://).


> it on different sub folders of the project, and we get the error after 
> different amounts of time on each folder.  It will choke on a particular 
> file while committing a folder, but committing that file individually 
> works fine.
>
> We've tried creating a new repository.
>
> Server is Ubuntu 12.04
> svn is 1.7.8
> Using a fresh copy of Tortoise as a client
> Lots of disk space and RAM.
> Nothing else on this server, yet.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Rob

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