Re: Issue 342 in tortoisesvn: crash expanding date keyword

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Simon Large
<simon.tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 June 2012 19:10,  <tortoisesvn_at_googlecode.com> wrote:
>> Status: WontFix
>> Owner: tortoise..._at_gmail.com
>> Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium crashreport-answer
>>
>> New issue 342 by tortoise..._at_gmail.com: crash expanding date keyword
>> http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/issues/detail?id=342
>>
>> this crash happens because of an invalid date of a file that has keyword
>> expansion set. The invalid date is in the server/repository stored as
>> a "last committed date" of that file.
>>
>> Since this crash happens because the stored date is invalid, there's
>> nothing we can do to prevent it.
>
> Don't you mean the crash is generated within the Subversion library?
> Presumably it could easily detect the invalid date and not crash, so a
> subversion bug.
>
>> You need to fix your corrupted repository and/or adjust the date/time on
>> your server and client machines.

only if you know exactly what date value makes strftime() throw an exception.

Stefan

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