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Re: SVN Property Value Size Limit

From: 'Daniel Shahaf' <danielsh_at_elego.de>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 16:17:05 +0300

Use ra_serf then :-)

Matthias Legeler wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:04:12 +0000:
> Checkout with neon: property value truncated
>
> Checkout with serf (svn co --config-option servers:global:http-library=serf URL): property value complete
>
> Matthias
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Daniel Shahaf' [mailto:danielsh_at_elego.de]
> Sent: Freitag, 28. Juni 2013 02:35
> To: Matthias Legeler
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: SVN Property Value Size Limit
>
> Matthias Legeler wrote on Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:30:32 +0000:
> > 'svn propget --strict svn:mergeinfo ./ ' gets the first 7895
> > characters 'svn propget --strict svn:mergeinfo URL' gets all 7959
> > characters
> >
> > yes, 64 characters difference
> >
>
> Interesting, thanks.
>
> I guess the next step is to look at the response headers. (You can use neon-debug-mask if you use neon, or wireshark/tcpdump if you don't use
> SSL.) In particular, whether the response includes the whole property, and whether metadata (eg: Content-Length response header) matches the response.
>
> BTW: does it happen under both serf and neon? (check 'svn --version' to see which you have; use --config-option to switch the active library)
>
> Daniel
>
> > Matthias
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:danielsh_at_elego.de]
> > Sent: Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2013 12:18
> > To: Matthias Legeler
> > Cc: 'users_at_subversion.apache.org'
> > Subject: Re: SVN Property Value Size Limit
> >
> > Matthias Legeler wrote on Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:02:50 +0000:
> > > In our subversion repositories we have merged many many times.
> > > Now we have very large svn:mergeinfo property values (>8k).
> > > The problem is now, that if we make a svn checkout, the property values will be truncated in the working copy by approximately 8k.
> > > The svn propget command at the working copy folder returns a truncated value.
> >
> > Where does the truncation happen? Do you get only the first 8KB of
> > the property? Do you get everything except the last 8KB? What is the
> > offset from the point of truncation to the start and to the (true) end
> > of the property? (Is that offset a power of 2?)
> >
> > You can determine all that with 'svn propget --strict svn:mergeinfo ./'
> > and 'svn propget --strict svn:mergeinfo URL'.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > > This occurs only for working copies there are created with the http protocol over the svn apache.
> > > With the file protocol the property values are complete.
> > >
> > > My question:
> > > Is this a known behavior?
> > > Is this limited by a setting in the Apache/WebDAV/SVN configuration?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Matthias
> > >
Received on 2013-07-01 15:17:50 CEST

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