The current version of svndumpfilter in trunk is dropping the line with PROPS-END on all empty revisions, causing malformed errors later on when trying to load the dump file into a repository.
$ svndumpfilter --version svndumpfilter, version 1.10.0 (r1784492) compiled Mar 22 2017, 19:02:41 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu ... $ cat sample.dump SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 3 UUID: d3321e12-171b-46ef-8253-cae8004b8185 Revision-number: 0 Prop-content-length: 56 Content-length: 56 K 8 svn:date V 27 2009-08-25T14:41:52.265643Z PROPS-END Revision-number: 1 Prop-content-length: 10 Content-length: 10 PROPS-END Revision-number: 2 Prop-content-length: 10 Content-length: 10 PROPS-END Revision-number: 3 Prop-content-length: 10 Content-length: 10 PROPS-END Revision-number: 4 Prop-content-length: 98 Content-length: 98 K 10 svn:author V 4 root K 8 svn:date V 27 2010-05-23T11:51:57.216283Z K 7 svn:log V 0 PROPS-END $ svndumpfilter include / < sample.dump > filtered.dump Including prefixes: '/' Revision 0 committed as 0. Revision 1 committed as 1. Revision 2 committed as 2. Revision 3 committed as 3. Revision 4 committed as 4. $ cat filtered.dump SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 3 UUID: d3321e12-171b-46ef-8253-cae8004b8185 Revision-number: 0 Prop-content-length: 56 Content-length: 56 K 8 svn:date V 27 2009-08-25T14:41:52.265643Z PROPS-END Revision-number: 1 Prop-content-length: 10 Content-length: 10 Revision-number: 2 Prop-content-length: 10 Content-length: 10 Revision-number: 3 Prop-content-length: 10 Content-length: 10 Revision-number: 4 Prop-content-length: 98 Content-length: 98 K 10 svn:author V 4 root K 8 svn:date V 27 2010-05-23T11:51:57.216283Z K 7 svn:log V 0 PROPS-END I hope the above will help pin down the problem. Steven ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sinara provides software development services and software products to major financial sector clients. For 25 years, we have combined strong technical skills with a pragmatic and flexible approach to deliver and support reliable IT systems for a global client base. http://www.sinara.com mailto:i...@sinara.co.uk +44 20 7940 7950 Disclaimer: This e-mail message (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain privileged information. It is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or use any of the information in it. If you receive this message in error please notify us as soon as possible and delete it. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Sinara Consultants Limited. Internet e-mails are not secure. Sinara does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Should you communicate with anyone at Sinara by email you consent to us monitoring and reading any such correspondence.
