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of your repository. This basically iterates through all
revisions in the repository by internally dumping all
revisions and discarding the output—it's a good idea
to run this on a regular basis to guard against latent
hard disk failures and “<span class="quote">bitrot</span>”. If this
command fails—which it will do at the first sign of
a problem—that means that your repository has at
least one corrupted revision and you should restore the
corrupted revision from a backup (you did make a backup,
didn't you?).</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id423910"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Verify a hung repository:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svnadmin verify /var/svn/repos/
* Verified revision 1729.
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