Files from the future breaks repo

Before anyone gets too excited I've not been able to reproduce the bug but more on that later...

I was happily building a svn repo from lots of backups of various docs when subversion fell over taking the repo with it. The working copy was inconsistent and svnadmin could no longer dump the repo. On closer inspection the files that caused the problem were all dated in 2099 (I assume that my system was screwed up in 1999 for a while). The nasty part is that "svn add" dealt with the files happily and it was only at the "svn ci" stage that the problem occurred so the repo was taken down in addition to the wc.

I didn't take note of the full details of the errors / messages since I figured I'd build a reproduction script to send instead. Unfortunately my copy of touch (from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) wouldn't let me create files dated later than 2038 which were added to a test repo without problem. I'm guessing the problem is either while parsing or its an overflow issue with the date.

So, can others reproduce this? If so then can I request a slightly more graceful failure at minimum so that time travelling fools such as myself don't get burnt so badly (okay so in my case it was easy to rebuild the repo but for others it might not be)

Thanks,

Rob

Win XP, Svn 0.29
Received on Wed Sep 17 01:21:18 2003