Julian Foad created SVN-4730:
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Summary: 'svnadmin verify' should check rep-cache refers to valid
revs
Key: SVN-4730
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4730
Project: Subversion
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: svnadmin
Reporter: Julian Foad
In some cases of a damaged repository, it is possible for the rep-cache to
contain references to revision numbers greater than the head revision.
For example, this can happen if the most recent revision(s) in a repository are
unwanted or corrupted, and I attempt recovery by deleting the unwanted
revisions and rolling back the "current" file.
'svnadmin recover' (since 1.7.3, 1.8.0) prunes the rep-cache, but we cannot
guarantee it was used.
The consequences of such bad references are serious: they can cause future
commits to be corrupted, silently.
Therefore 'svnadmin verify' should check the rep-cache only refers to existing
revisions.
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