Paul Burba wrote on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 12:31 -0400:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi John - Do you know how the mergeinfo in r40998 was created? Was it
> >> the result of a merge or a propset/propedit or something else
> >> entirely? Also, can you hazard a guess as to what version of
> >> Subversion (or some other client tool) was used to make it?
> >>
> >> If possible I'd like to figure out how the <CR> got in your repository
> >> in the first place before making any fixes to dump/load.
> >
> > I am not sure why we are thinking this is anything special (related to
> > mergeinfo). We have had many reports of people running into this
> > problem for all sorts of properties.
>
> Mark,
>
> I hadn't realized that, I see the various threads and issue #3404
> related to svnsync. But dump/load with 1.6.2 works fine if there are
> "\r\n" in, say, an svn:log property...
>
Indeed.
> > SVN 1.6 requires that all
> > properties only have LF line endings. If you ever edited the
> > properties on Windows and did not normalize the line endings yourself,
> > it is just a given you are going to have this problem.
> >
> > We know that
> > users are regularly editing svn:mergeinfo so why should we be any more
> > surprised about this than we are with all of the reports for
> > svn:ignore, svn:externals and/or log messages?
> >
> > Personally, I am not sure there was much value in suddenly making the
> > server enforce this restriction when our client libraries have never
> > done anything to help with this normalization. If anything, it seems
> > like we should have put this in the client and let the server still
> > accept the old property values.
>
> ...so if what you are saying here is to tolerate "" in a loaded dump
> file, then the very simple attached patch does just that. Actually it
> does more than tolerate it, it normalizes the line endings to '\n' in
> the loaded repos.
>
> Any reason not to do this? I hesitate to commit only because I've not
> hacked on the svnadmin code in general, this seems like a no-brainer.
>
Agreed, I don't see a reason against this fix.
Though perhaps you should notify (on stderr) that you modify the data
being loaded.
> Paul
>
> [[[
> Make svnadmin load tolerate mergeinfo with "\r\n".
>
> * subversion/libsvn_repos/load.c
> (svn_subst.h): New include.
> (renumber_mergeinfo_revs): Normalize mergeinfo line endings to '\n'.
> ]]]
>
s/intitial/initial/ (in the name of the new variable)
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