Re: Weird bug with directory deltification in 1.8.x

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Roderich Schupp <roderich.schupp_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> found in the wild, reproducible with this script:
>
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>
[...]

>
> Notes:
> - "svnadmin verify" does NOT report any errors
> - indeed the output of "svnadmin dump" looks correct
> - enable-dir-deltification is definitely required to hit the bug
> - also the length of the name of the directory seems to matter,
> at least ~12 characters are required
>

Fixed in r1676667. Details, regression test & backport tomorrow.

> The above script produces no error for Subversion 1.9.0 beta1, so FWIIW
> I ran svn-bisect on trunk from the branching-off point for 1.8.x ("good",
> ie. has the bug)
> to the branching-off point of 1.9.x ("bad", ie. it's fixed) and the
> "culprit" came out
> as r1554942 which supposedly isn't a fix at all (and modifies a file that
> doesn't exist in 1.8.x).
>

1.9+ should also be affected - it's simply harder to trigger.

-- Stefan^2.
Received on 2015-04-29 06:54:44 CEST