Re: Corrupt text file

mika.karkkainen_at_tietolaite.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While doing some merge-related testing, I stumbled into a text file that
> had gone corrupt. The signs of corruption are:
>
> 1) A 0x0B char followed by two slashes appeared twice in a line that I
> added, the corrupt line looks like:
>
> // 0x3b// svn150devtest3-branch mod #1 0x3b//
>
> 2) Two null bytes were appended to the end of the file
>
> The whole scenario was:
> - create a fsfs repo
> - using TSVN, import a std VC 6 project into it
> - using TSVN, checkout the trunk
> - using TSVN, create a branch
> - using TSVN, checkout the branch
> - modify a file in the branch (as discussed above)
> - using TSVN, check-in the branch (this is the step were the corruption
> occurred)

Is the file corrupted on your branch working copy? If that's the case,
then it's unlikely that svn is the reason for the corruption: on
import/commit/... files are not modified at all by Subversion, only
during update/merge/...

> - using TSVN, merge from branch to trunk
>
>
> Since we have a self-compiled 150-dev subversion on the server side, my
> guesses tend to fall into that direction (even though the subversion
> test-suite succeeded, except for one blame-related test). But anyhow,
> _any_ ideas/experiences about what might be causing this, are most
> certainly gladly received.

If you can reproduce the corruption of the file, I suggest you report
this to the subversion mailing list (users at subversion tigris org).

Stefan

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