Questions tagged [svnadmin]

svnadmin is the administrative tool for monitoring and repairing your Subversion repository.

The svnadmin program is the Subversion repository administrator's best friend. Besides providing the ability to create Subversion repositories, this program allows you to perform several maintenance and repair operations on those repositories.

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svndumpfilter2 vs svndumpfilter3

I keep hitting the memory issues in svndumpfilter2 (someone checked in 4Gb of binaries into my subversion...) and it is just crashing on that particular commit. svnadmin dump repo/ | python svndumpfilter2 repo/ keep/this/path > myrepo.dump It…
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Dumping Subversion Repository one revision at a time

We have a big, giant sloppy Subversion repository that contains 60+ projects. The trunk, branches, and tags directories are in the root of the repository. Some branches are done branches/project/branchName. Others are done…
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how to use svndumpfilter to exclude a certain revision

I have an SVN repository with a bad revision or two. I need to get rid of them! I was planning on using the svndumpfilter tool, which has an exclude command. However, I cannot figure out how to use it to exclude a revision. Everytime I use it, I end…
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Importing svn repositories from Origo

Origo is shutting down their SVN hosting, so I am once again forced to move to another SVN hosting service. The thing is, they did provide us with an URL to a "nightly dump" of the repository. But in fact, this is NOT a Subversion portable dump…
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SVN Load to older repository, but SVN Clients can't commit newer files

So our SVN server died overnight and the most recent dump was performed and copied off the server the day before. Got a new SVN server up and going and loaded all the repositry backups from the last successfull dump. However there were commits made…
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How do I batch rewrite an SVN log?

I need to do a search/replace over the names of users making changes to my SVN repository; we're making some organizational changes so I need to change 'fantasticMan' as the author of various changes in the log to 'authorA' (just an example). My…
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svn: Local URL 'file://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/root/svn_repo' contains unsupported hostname

I'm using svn and svnadmin of v1.6.13. [root@ns ~]# pwd /root [root@ns ~]# svn --version svn, version 1.6.13 (r1002816) compiled Oct 11 2010, 08:18:53 [root@ns ~]# svnadmin --version svnadmin, version 1.6.13 (r1002816) compiled Oct 11 2010,…
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SVN Migration to another Windows Server

I attempting to relocate multiple SVN repositories from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2016. Using svnadmin dump and svnadmin load are not preserving the revision numbering. How can I relocate the repositories and preserve the numbering?
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How to migrate a SVN repo that has a svnadmin: Decompression of svndiff data failed

I am trying to migrate a SVN repo from a remote host, but using svnadmin from cli on that host, I got this error after 6372 revision: Dumped revision 6372 svnadmin: E185005: Decompression of svndiff data failed I have not run yet fsfsverify…
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How to Load partial repository dump without changing revision numbers

We have a corporate SVN repository with many projects being hosted, each with its own branches/trunk/tags. My team is only interested in 2 projects. So I created 2 dump files using svnrdump. Now I'm trying to load them into my local SVN. But I would…
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How to recover from missing revisions when using an incremental svn backup strategy

I'm currently using an incremental backup method for an SVN repository, where I make a separate dump for each revision that's not dumped yet. This seems to work well and keeps backups manageable. My question is, can I restore the repository when…
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svn repo borked by git svn remove and add?

I had a directory, Dir, that I removed with git svn, and then I added dir. By checking this two-commit in, svn is no longer able to update, hanging on the inability to add a directory which already exists. Is there a way to remove the svn commits…
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Redoing manual merge with SVN merge

I'm trying to fix an SVN project where the following happened: A feature branch was taken from trunk There were regular commits to this branch. When it came time to merge the branch back into trunk, the developer didn't use SVN merge, but WinMerge…
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E185004 When 10% Through Loading Deltas Dump File for SVN

I have a deltas (version 3) dump file, which is about 48GB in size. I attempted the following on my machine svnadmin create ./path/to/testRepo svnadmin load ./path/to/testRepo < ./path/to/my.dump The dump file that I'm working with runs fine with…
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SVN Checksum Mismatch Weird behaviour : Different actual checksum with every infocation of svnadmin verify

I have a very weird issue. We have a checksum mismatch error on one of our revisions in one of our repositories. The output below : svnadmin verify -r 6789 fleet-activ/ svnadmin: E160004: Filesystem is corrupt svnadmin: E200014: Checksum mismatch…
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