How can I fix the SVN import line endings error?

Question

I have to import an huge SVN repository that I have to transfer from one server to another. So I exported it from the old server:

svnadmin dump . > archive.sv         


        

Answer 1

I ran into this error when upgrading a 1.6 repo to 1.8. I found a number of "Fixes" on the net.

The --bypass-prop-validation did not appeal to me because it postpones the problem, the next time you need to restore the repo you will hit the same promblem.

I found a bash script to loop through the revisions getting the comments and setting them again but this did not work.

An improvement on ventura10's solution did the job. Because of the size of the dump I ended up using the single command to remove the unwanted characters while restoring the dump

    sed -e '/^svn:log$/,/^K / s/^M/ /' -e '/^svn:ignore$/,/^PROPS-END$/ s/^M/\n/' /path/to/svn.dump | svnadmin load /path/to/repo

NOTE:

Where ^M is a control character, that means 0D in hex. To get it use ^V^M (control V control M) instead ^M (circumflex M or control M)