Recovering data from failed transaction. (HELP!!)

[Sir Woody Hackswell <wo...@hackswell.com>]

Hello!  I have a deloper on my team who did a commit through tortoiseSVN and 
received a error about transactions.  He then proceeded to delete the files 
he'd just tried to commit, and they're gone.  Hehe... that's not your guys' 
problem.  It's user education.

Now... I have two log.* files on the server from his failed commit.  How can 
I either:

* Stuff those log.* files into the repository
* Convert the log.* into useful files

Any help would be enormously appreciated!!

Svn 1.0.6, Windows XP, stock binary install.  Using SVN protocol.

Thanks!!!

-Richard Balint
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
rbalint@ball.com



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Re: Recovering data from failed transaction. (HELP!!)

[Bryan Donlan <bd...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:34:03 -0400 (EDT), Sir Woody Hackswell
<wo...@hackswell.com> wrote:
> Hello!  I have a deloper on my team who did a commit through tortoiseSVN and
> received a error about transactions.  He then proceeded to delete the files
> he'd just tried to commit, and they're gone.  Hehe... that's not your guys'
> problem.  It's user education.
> 
> Now... I have two log.* files on the server from his failed commit.  How can
> I either:
> 
> * Stuff those log.* files into the repository
> * Convert the log.* into useful files
> 
> Any help would be enormously appreciated!!
> 
> Svn 1.0.6, Windows XP, stock binary install.  Using SVN protocol.
> 
> Thanks!!!

The log.* files are low-level records of the underlying database, used
to recover from crashes. It'd be very difficult to extract the data
from it. Moreover, if you have log auto-deletion on, not all of the
data might be there. However, if the transaction still exists
(svnadmin lstxns would list it), you can use svnlook to get at the
data, specifying the transaction with -t.

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