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Re: unprintable characters in directory name

From: Roman Taranchenko <roma_at_adv.ru>
Date: 2003-05-23 10:43:34 CEST

On Thu, 22 May 2003 cmpilato@collab.net wrote:

I've upgraded svn to 0.23.0 (r5962) but the problem still exists.
Directory name is 0x90 0x25 0x06 0x10 (four characters).

I've made use of your advice about dump/edit/load. Thanks.

> Roman Taranchenko <roma@adv.ru> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > We have a subversion repository where one of our developers has
> > made directory with unprintable name. As result we cannot check
> > out repository by the net as well as locally.
> >
> > svn says:
> >
> > svn: RA layer request failed
> > svn: could not fetch directory entries
> > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/SWT/!svn/bc/60'
> > svn: The PROPFIND request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse
> > error at line 50: not well-formed (invalid token). (/SWT/!svn/bc/60)
> >
> > How we can fix it?
> >
> > We use svn version 0.21.0 (r5639) under FreeBSD.
>
> Have you tried using a newer Subversion? And can you tell us the name
> of the directory (perhaps by just listing the hex or decimal byte
> representations of it) so that we can test this out?
>
> Finally, you should be able to run 'svnadmin dump' on your repository,
> edit the resulting dumpfile (replacing all instances of your
> wackily-named directory with something not-so-wackily-named), and then
> 'svnadmin load' that dumpfile (see the Subversion book online at
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com for more on dumping and loading).
>
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