Could not read chunk size. Error in SVN

Question

I have recovered SVN repository from crashed PC and now I can checkout files from few directories but in one place during checkout it says:

Error: REPORT of \'/s         


        

Answer 1

Yet another answer by someone with the same problem, however with a solution that has not yet been mentioned:

In my case the problem could not be be pinpointed to a single file. However, it was clearly connected to a single svn revision.

The solution in such a case is to skip fetching the bad revision. This can be achieved by calling git svn fetch with the -r option. For instance, if r42 is the bad revision, and you have already fetched all revisions up to r41, just do

git svn fetch -r43

followed by

git svn fetch

to bring your git repository up to date. Of course, the obvious downside of this approach is the hole in the history that you get, but I think it's better to have a small hole in the history than to do without a working git svn clone.