can't "svnadmin load"

[Daevid Vincent <da...@daevid.com>]

I am having all kinds of issues trying to import a dump from
http://cvsdude.com. 
We've been using them, but now would like to move the subversion in-house.

root@bugs:/tmp# svnadmin load help
svnadmin: Can't open file 'help/format': No such file or directory

root@bugs:/tmp# svnadmin load --force-uuid /var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com
< web.svn 
svnadmin: Valid UTF-8 data
(hex:)
followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
(hex: 96 2d 66 6f)

root@bugs:/tmp# svnadmin load /var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com < web.svn

<<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
svnadmin: File already exists: filesystem
'/var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com/db', transaction '2-1', path 'branches'
     * adding path : branches ...root@bugs:/tmp#

I tried to delete the 'db' directory and that didn't work either:
svnadmin: Can't open file '/var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com/db/DB_CONFIG':
No such file or directory

I tried to point it right at the db and that failed too.
# svnadmin load /var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com/db < web.svn
svnadmin: Expected repository format '3' or '5'; found format '2'

What am I doing wrong? This shouldn't be so difficult.


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Re: can't "svnadmin load"

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On May 15, 2008, at 00:57, Daevid Vincent wrote:

> I am having all kinds of issues trying to import a dump from
> http://cvsdude.com.
> We've been using them, but now would like to move the subversion in- 
> house.
>
> root@bugs:/tmp# svnadmin load help
> svnadmin: Can't open file 'help/format': No such file or directory
>
> root@bugs:/tmp# svnadmin load --force-uuid /var/local/svn/ 
> svn.mycompany.com
> < web.svn
> svnadmin: Valid UTF-8 data
> (hex:)
> followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
> (hex: 96 2d 66 6f)
>
> root@bugs:/tmp# svnadmin load /var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com <  
> web.svn
>
> <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
> svnadmin: File already exists: filesystem
> '/var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com/db', transaction '2-1', path  
> 'branches'
>      * adding path : branches ...root@bugs:/tmp#
>
> I tried to delete the 'db' directory and that didn't work either:
> svnadmin: Can't open file '/var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com/db/ 
> DB_CONFIG':
> No such file or directory
>
> I tried to point it right at the db and that failed too.
> # svnadmin load /var/local/svn/svn.mycompany.com/db < web.svn
> svnadmin: Expected repository format '3' or '5'; found format '2'
>
> What am I doing wrong? This shouldn't be so difficult.

The way to get help about the svnadmin load command is to type  
"svnadmin help load" (not "svnadmin load help"). You can also read  
the book at http://svnbook.org

svnadmin is having trouble converting non-UTF-8 data in the dumpfile  
it seems? Do you have the LANG environment variable set to something  
that makes sense for your system? If not, please do. Though I didn't  
think the dumpfile should ever contain non-UTF-8 data... If it helps  
you locate the source of the problem, the butes 96 2d 66 6f, if they  
are in the ISO-8859-1 charset, are "–-fo" -- that is, an en-dash, a  
dash, the letter f, the letter o. Is that string present in one of  
your filenames in the dump? Again it shouldn't be a problem; the  
repository should be able to handle UTF-8 filenames. Just trying to  
see where the message is coming from.

You're trying to load a complete repository dump into a new empty  
local repository, yes? In that case, once svnadmin load fails, you  
should delete the repository and recreate a new empty one before  
attempting to load again. That should take care of the rest of the  
errors you mentioned.


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