SVN 'Unexpected end of svndiff input' error

Question

I'm having a problem with svn, where running 'svn up' produces the following error:

svn: Unexpected end of svndiff input

Ironically, running 'svnadmin verify repository_path' also returns the same error. It happens on existing working copies and brand new working copies too.

Anybody had and solved this problem before? We've been using svn for a number of years and know our way around pretty well, but this one has us stumped!

Answer 1

if

svnadmin verify repo/path

returns the same error, then your repository is corrupted (bad harddrive maybe?).

try running

svnadmin recover repo/path

if that doesn't help, you might have to restore your repository from a backup.