Symptoms

Fisheye/Crucible fails to index the SVN repository with the following error in the atlassian-fisheye-YYYY-MM-DD.log:

2014-09-11 09:45:04,418 ERROR [InitialPinger3 repo] fisheye BaseRepositoryScanner-handleSlurpException - Problem processing revisions from repo districtappsrepo due to class com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.RepositoryClientException - org.apache.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E160013: '/path/to/lib/portable-net40+sl4+wp7+win8' path not found: 404 Not Found (https://svn.server.com)

Cause

The plus (+) in the path of the folder was committed to the repository as the URL encoded version of portable-net40%2Bsl4%2Bwp7%2Bwin8. When the SVN server looks for portable-net40+sl4+wp7+win8 it is not found because the plus signs have been encoded.

Workaround

1. Check out the repo using tortoise 1.8.3 (it will checkout the folder with pluses)
2. Copy the portable-net40+sl4+wp7+win8 folder out of the repository
3. Commit the delete (it deletes the %2b version)
4. Copy the folder back into the repository
5. Commit (it commits the + version)
6. In fisheye edit the repo and under SCM Details >> Start Revision set it to the current repo version.

Resolution

Dump the SVN repository to a flat file and manually edit the %2B values to be + (where appropriate). You may need to update the MD5 sums for these as the hash may have changed.

Export SVN repository to flat file

svnadmin dump > dump_file

Import edited SVN repository

svnadmin load /path/to/new/repo < dump_file

More Information

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/205296/delete-file-contents-from-svn-history

• http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal