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Re: Can not checkout revisions which author name rev property contains ASCII control characters

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-03-04 16:32:28 CET

On 3/1/07, Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev@farside.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:54:04PM +0600, Alexander Sinyushkin wrote:
> > Hello, SVN devs! I have recently encountered the following problem:
> > I tried to make a dir in a repository remotely and used an ASCII
> > control character ('\b' in particular) in my --username switch:
> >
> > >svn mkdir file:///G:/materials/rep/test2 --username Sasha
> >
> > Committed revision 442.
> >
> > svn.exe committed without problems.
> >
> > But when I tried to checkout what I had committed I got the following
> > error:
> >
> > >svn co http://localhost/materials/rep/test2 test5 --username garry --password garry
> > svn: Malformed XML: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 6
> >
> > It seems to me that the problem is in this backspace symbol. Is it
> > expected behaviour that svn.exe crashes attempting to parse the log
> > file?
> >
>
> No, we should either be preventing the original commit, or (more likely)
> encoding the string correctly when we write it to the log. I've raised
> issue 2730 to cover this.

We have a perfectly sane way to serialize internal datastructures in
our codebase which won't need encodings: ra_svn uses tuples and some
other data types which nicely fit our in-memory storage model.
Shouldn't we switch to that instead of fixing our XML
storing/parsing?

Just a thought.

Bye,

Erik.
Received on Sun Mar 4 16:32:53 2007

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