The following symmetries should be true, and testable, and we should test them.
For any valid repository:
* we can dump it
* we can load the dump file into a new repository
* the new repo is equivalent to the old repo
For any valid dump file:
* we can load it into a new repository
* we can dump that repository
* the new dump file is equivalent to the old dump file
See the dev@ email thread "Symmetry between dump and load" started on
2014-12-19, archived at e.g. <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2014-12/0108.shtml>
or
<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201412.mbox/%3C1418991791.49595.YahooMailNeo@web87702.mail.ir2.yahoo.com%3E>.