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Re: Bug with Special Character in log message

From: frankgilroy <fjgilroy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:17:40 -0700 (PDT)

I attached the file when I entered this request using Nabble as opposed to
just sending e-mail. Here is the url for the revprops file.

http://www.nabble.com/file/p18595680/442
http://www.nabble.com/file/p18595680/442

frankgilroy wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> We’re running across an issue when using svn log on one of our
> repositories. We regularly execute a command like the following for
> reporting purposes:
>
> svn log --xml --non-interactive https://our.server.com/svn/TEST/
>
> When we run this command it truncates the output at a revision that has a
> strange character in the log message. It fails to put the closing </log>
> in the XML and spits out the following message:
>
> svn: REPORT of '/svn/TEST/!svn/bc/154': 200 OK
>
> I noticed that the revprops file for the offending revision contains a
> special character and gets recognized as ISO-8859 as opposed to ASCII like
> all of the rest of the 7000+ revprops files. I have attached that
> revprops file.
>
> I’m told that newer versions of subversion don’t allow log messages with
> bad characters. But I’m wondering if it could be patched to file more
> gracefully for existing log messages with bad characters. Our audit folks
> don't want us going back and mucking with old log messages.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Frank Gilroy
> Accenture
> (610) 761-8176
> AIM: fjgilroy71, YAHOO: fjgilroy
> frank.j.gilroy_at_accenture.com
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18595680/442 442
>

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