I stumbled across a bug in svn_load_dirs.pl when importing paths with an ampersand character. Anything after the final ampersand in a path gets interpreted as a peg revision during the add phase, so the affected files don't get imported and the sanity check at the end fails.
I have attached a patch to get around the issue; it always adds an ampersand to the end of each path while building the TARGETS file. This is documented in the svn book here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html The perceptive reader is probably wondering at this point whether the peg > revision syntax causes problems for working copy paths or URLs that actually > have at signs in them. After all, how does svn know whether n...@11 is the > name of a directory in my tree or just a syntax for “revision 11 of news”? > Thankfully, while svn will always assume the latter, there is a trivial > workaround. You need only append an at sign to the end of the path, such as > n...@11@. svn cares only about the last at sign in the argument, and it is > not considered illegal to omit a literal peg revision specifier after that > at sign. This workaround even applies to paths that end in an at sign—you > would use filename@@ to talk about a file named filen...@. Below is a simple test to reproduce the issue: dev-kevinm04:~$ mkdir test dev-kevinm04:~$ touch test/a.txt dev-kevinm04:~$ svnadmin create repos dev-kevinm04:~$ svn_load_dirs -v -t 1.0 file://`pwd`/repos current test Directory test will be tagged as 1.0 <snip> Cleaning up /tmp/svn_load_dirs_a_cRabZpNS dev-kevinm04:~$ touch test/b...@c.txt dev-kevinm04:~$ svn_load_dirs -v -t 2.0 file://`pwd`/repos current test Directory test will be tagged as 2.0 <snip> Checking out file:///home/london/kevinm/repos/current into /tmp/svn_load_dirs_SfwwQDtsAX/my_import_wc Running /usr/local/bin/svn checkout --non-interactive file:///home/london/kevinm/repos/current my_import_wc Loading test and will save in tag 2.0. A b...@c.txt Running /usr/local/bin/svn add -N --targets /tmp/svn_load_dirs_SfwwQDtsAX/targets.00001 Running /usr/local/bin/svn commit --non-interactive -m Load test into current. Running /usr/local/bin/svn update --non-interactive Running /usr/local/bin/svn cp --non-interactive -m Tag current as 2.0. file:///home/london/kevinm/repos/current file:///home/london/kevinm/repos/2.0 Checking out file:///home/london/kevinm/repos/2.0 into /tmp/svn_load_dirs_SfwwQDtsAX/my_tag_wc_named_2.0 Running /usr/local/bin/svn checkout --non-interactive file:///home/london/kevinm/repos/2.0 my_tag_wc_named_2.0 Running diff -u -x .svn -r test /tmp/svn_load_dirs_SfwwQDtsAX/my_tag_wc_named_2.0 /usr/local/bin/svn_load_dirs: diff -u -x .svn -r test /tmp/svn_load_dirs_SfwwQDtsAX/my_tag_wc_named_2.0 failed with this output: Only in test: b...@c.txt Press return to quit and clean up svn working directory: Cleaning up /tmp/svn_load_dirs_SfwwQDtsAX dev-kevinm04:~$ Thanks, Kevin.
