On Nov 21, 2008, at 2:36 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> 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.
+1 - For now, as far as I can tell the way out is to use an old
svnsync if you actually want a local copy of the repository.
>> 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.
That actually feels wrong to me - I can't, for example, easily go fix
svn:log properties on Google Code without syncing it using an old
version and then asking for a repo reset. The former approach, while
more complex, *seems* a bit more satisfactory. That said, until I
actually find time to write code for this, I'm just a whiner ;).
> 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?
Could we write a tool similar to svnsync that produced a dumpfile
instead which could be post-processed as needed to get it to load,
bypassing the "invalid rev" problems?
> Daniel
>
>> First, though, to be sure, post a more detailed description, as
>> above.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> ~Neels
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