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Re: svn 1.4.2 diff bug report

From: Dmitry Mityushev (ACD Inc) <mitya_at_acdlabs.ru>
Date: 2006-11-24 08:24:38 CET

         OK, thank you. Sorry for worring you by exe file. But on our
company we have ARJ as a standard for archiving soft so I packed it to exe
as were not sure that you have arj to unpack it.
         This problem appears not only on my PC but on other computers on
our company too (on Windows 2K).

At 01:31 24.11.2006 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Dmitry Mityushev (ACD Inc) wrote:
> > Hello, subversion. I found a bug on subversion 1.4.x.
> >
> > Extract attached archive file into separate folder.
>
>It has been said already, but it bears repeating: Do not send .exe files
> to people and expect them to run them. The risk of virus transmission
>is too high.
>
>That said, I got curious what kind of weird and bizarre archive format
>you had created. For the curiosity of others: It turned out to be a
>UPX-compressed self-extracting ARJ. Having found that winrar was capable
>of unpacking it without executing it, I did so.
>
>Incidentally, a nice standard .zip file was only a few KB larger, whilst
> a .tar.bz2 was practically half the size.
>
>So I made one available:
>http://www.red-bean.com/~maxb/svn_bug.tar.bz2
>
> > And start on folder root following command
> >
> > svn diff chemsk\baseintr.pas specman\dblayoutwnd.pas
> > nmr_pred\cnmr\cnmrhist.rc
> >
> > On my computer I see this message
> >
> > 102cd99.jpg
> >
> > Operation system is Windows 2000 Professional.
> >
> > It seems that the problem appears only on 1.4.x and didn't exist on
> > earlier versions of subversion. The similar error appears from time to
> > time when I make svn update (I already reported you about the problem -
> > but on that time I didn't have a way to reproduce it stably).
>
>Works just fine for me using svn 1.4.2 on Linux, so either it's a
>Win32-specific problem, or something's broken on your particular computer.
>
>Max.
>

Best regards (сердечный привет),

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                 Dmitry Mityushev, Ph.D.
           Advanced Chemistry Development Inc.
            (R&D Department chief programmer)
               E-mail: mitya@acdlabs.ru
                http://www.acdlabs.com
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