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Re: Trunk svnsync can't sync some existing repos

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:36:21 +0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)

Neels J. Hofmeyr wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 at 02:58 +0100:
> I figure a sync from one repos to another may produce this situation: The
> one server contains inconsistent line endings, of old. The other server now
> checks incoming data for consistency and refuses to receive.
>

We should document a way of getting out of this "My repository is invalid"
situation. It's been reported a few times already (including in the svn
and svnbook repositories) and we haven't even branched 1.6.x yet.

> So, I guess svnsync should automatically correct inconsistent line-ending
> styles (check each svn:log revprop, if found inconsistent, send a consistent
> version to the other side, or something like that -- might get complex).
>
> I have no time to work on this now, so if you feel inclined to look around
> yourself or have others to do that for you, this list will gladly be of
> assistance.
>
> Alternatively, the source repository could be fixed to not contain any
> inconsistent line endings.

For the svn:log props, I like the latter approach: we could post a script
that converts them to LF and UTF-8. Then the repos conforms to our API
and the problem is handled once and for all.

>

However, I also added another new check -- for filesystem paths being in
UTF-8 -- a few weeks ago. It would be harder to fix, since the
corruptions it detects are in the immutable historical data. (Does any
dumpfile manipulator support re-encoding paths already? If not, it or
svnsync could be taught to do that.)

Opinions?

Daniel

> First, though, to be sure, post a more detailed description, as above.
>
> Thanks!
> ~Neels
>
>
>

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