On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 12:02:18PM +0530, Nitin Bhide wrote: > I have a local subversion repository. I am trying to convert it to > Mercurial. In the process I discovered that repository is corrupted. I have > tried the following > > 1. svnadmin verify - confirmed that repository is corrupted at revision > 1265. The verify stops at this revision. > 2. svnadmin recover - was unable to recover the repository. > 3. tried to dump the repository content. svnadmin dump fails at revision > 1265. So dumped till 1264. Took another dump from revision 1322. (all > revision from 1265 to 1321 are giving the serialized hash terminator error). > 4. I tried to combine the dumps and load it into a new repository. However, > some files were added in the 'missing' revisions (1265 to 1321) and while > loading dump I am getting errors. > > I googled for error and advice seems to be dump the repository and reload > the contents in new repository. However, that does not work for me. > > I tried to find what exactly is the meaning of the error. However, I could > not get any information. I tried to read the documentation of FSFS > structure ( > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure). > I tried to manually check revision file for 1265 and see what is wrong. But > could not find anything visibly wrong. > > Is there any way to correct this error in the repository > (manually/programmatically) ? > > If someone can give me a hint on what is wrong in the file and underwhat > conditions this error occurs, I will try to write a script to correct it. > > Regards, > Nitin
Give this script a try: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/server-side/fsfsverify.py It can fix some instances of corruption which was probably caused by older Subversion/APR versions.
