Re: SCM-Manager/SVNKit 1.10.10 vs TortoiseSVN 1.14.9

HI Jochen,

Welcome to [email protected]

For the readers here, this topic has already been discussed a bit on the
TortoiseSVN group, see https://groups.google.com/g/tortoisesvn/c/-msg_dvvTdI

Some comments from that discussion below.

Den mån 10 aug. 2026 kl 10:36 skrev Paul, Jochen <[email protected]>:

> Hi there,
>
> we're using SCM-Manager 3.11.7 as SVN Server. The software is running on
> Windows Server 2025. As client tool we're using Tortoise SVN 1.14.9. For
> our daily work the combination works like a charm. The SCM-Manager SVN
> plugin is set to SVN 1.7 compatibility mode. On the server Tortoise SVN is
> also installed including the CLI tools. The CLI tools are added to the path
> so they're available without any problems.
>

The TortoiseSVN command line tools are straight up from the Subversion
project so I think this question belong here rather than on the TSVN group.


>
> Our backups are created with scripts. The dumps are created using the
> svnrdump command, the imports are done either using the UI of SCM-Manager
> or the svnadmin load command on the CLI. Both works as expected without any
> problems.
>
> Now some of our repositories needs some restructuring. Because of this I
> want to create a partial dump on the server using a combination of svnadmin
> dump and svndumpfilter. This results in an error. I'm using:
>
> svnadmin dump <path-to-repo>\data | svndumpfilter include <repobranch>
> --renumber-revs --drop-empty-revs > partial.dump
> svnadmin: E070014: Can't read file '<path-to-repo>\data\db\uuid': End of
> file found
> Including (and dropping empty revisions for) prefixes:
>    '<repobranch>'
>
> svndumpfilter: E200003: Premature end of content data in dumpstream
>
> I've googled the SVN error, tried to force file format of the UUID file to
> be UTF-8, using Linux EOL style, added an additional UUID, replaced the
> complete file with a new one... No success. I've also tried to use commands
> like svnadmin verify and svnadmin fix to get rid of this problem, also
> without success. They result all in the same or in similar errors. As hint
> from the TortoiseSVN mailinglist somebody noted, that there should be two
> IDs in the UUID file - in fact there is only one.
>

We have checked the contents of the db\format file, that indicate:

7
layout sharded 1000

 I checked on my side with svnadmin create --compatible-version=1.9 and I
also get format 7 (but with logical addressing) and in the uuid file I have
two UUIDs.


> Currently I'm puzzled and do not have any idea to succeed. I'll be happy
> if somebody can point me to the right direction to solve this issue. I'm
> continuing my quest here after somebody at TortoiseSVN redirected me to
> here. Our daily work flags no problems with this tool combination. Maybe
> I'm wrong, so please apologize.
>

Is this an issue where SVNKit creates a repository where the ondisk format
is not compatible with what our tools expect?

I have suggested to create the repositories with as high version as SVNKit
can support to see if there is a difference. I have also suggested to do
the dump via svnrdump since that use SVNKit's repo layer which seems to be
fine with the repository ondisk format.

Cheers,
Daniel


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