--help section for mongodump --repair looks like this:

      --repair                        try to recover a crashed database

And it may sound like the mongodump will try to "fix" the database. But in fact it is a read only operation that tries to read the contents of a database by iterating over the extents manually. For mmap v1, this goes through 2 passes - iterating to the next record and iterating to the prev record. In other words, if the database is in a valid state, each document will appear twice.

We also need to fix our documentation since it is not correct:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/program/mongodump/

--repair
Runs a repair option in addition to dumping the database. The repair option attempts to repair a database that may be in an invalid state as a result of an improper shutdown or mongod crash.

The --repair option uses aggressive data-recovery algorithms that may produce a large amount of duplication.