Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> > On Jul 9, 2018, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 07/09/2018 01:57 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > >> Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com>:
> > >>> I'm not aware of any such merges, but any that occurred most likely
> > >>> happened after mid-April when the trunk was re-opened for development.
> >
> > >> I'm pretty certain things were still good at r256000. I've started that
> > >> check running. Not expecting results in less than twelve hours.
> >
> > > r256000 would be roughly Christmas 2017.
> >
> > When was the RAID/LVM disk corruption incident? Could it possibly have
> > left any of our svn repo metadata in a corrupted way that confuses
> > reposurgeon, and that leads to such huge differences?
>
> That was 14/15 Aug 2017, and all the SVN revision data up to r251080 were
> restored from backup within 24 hours or so. I found no signs of damage to
> revisions from the 24 hours or so between r251080 and the time of the
> corruption when I examined diffs for all those revisions by hand at that
> time.
Agreed. I don't think that incident is at the root of the problems.
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