Hi Philip, sorry for the late reply. Thanks for your details. That helped and works fine for us.
Kind regards - Jan Am 16.08.2013 11:51, schrieb Philip Martin: > Jan Stürtz <jan.stue...@contact.de> writes: > >> Hi list, >> we have a quite old & grown svn repository here. With some "interesting" >> svn:mergeinfo Properties. (see the diff below) >> >> This seems to be been allowed in earlier svn versions. >> >> For backup Issues svn copy worked fine for all the time, >> but now we want to update our server (svn version & hardware) and >> do a full svn dump/load cycle: >> >> svnadmin dump --incremental -r 59979 src-100904/ > /root/src.dump >> svnadmin: E200020: Pathname not terminated by ':' >> >> As reading a little bit in the docs & code I found out that there is a >> possibility to bypass the check on svn load (--bypass-prop-validation), >> but not with svn dump. >> >> It looks like we have mutliple Changes like this one. >> >> Does anyone have suggestions how to get on with that issue? > > The mergeinfo is only parsed for partial dumps, i.e. when the start > revision greater than one, as this allows the dump process to issue a > warning when the mergeinfo refers to revisions not in the dump file. > The only workaround is to do full dumps which bypasses the mergeinfo > parse and will write the invalid mergeinfo to the dumpfile. You will > then need to correct the mergeinfo in the dumpfile as load will fail to > load a dumpfile with invalid mergeinfo. >
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