Re: %file unwise?

On 2004-12-03 16:19-0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm converting an old CVS repository which has many files named %meta.
> Mostly this has worked fine, until I tried a merge between two branches
> where one branch had a %meta file that had to be created as a result of
> the merge. When I went to commit, I got an error:

You have been bitten by this:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1905

The good news is that this is fixed, and should be in 1.1.2 when it
will be released.

In the meantime, you have couple of options:

Set up temporary ra_svn (svnserve) server, and do the merge via it.
The bug only affects ra_dav. Or build your own client from 1.1.x
branch and use it. In both cases you have to redo the merge, because
the problem is that your .svn/entries file contains an attribute
(copyfrom-url) which is not url-escaped.

BR, Jani

P.S. Your third option is that you do a (perl)script which will fix
those "copyfrom-url" attributes so that they are properly escaped.

If you decide to go this route, please remember: It is long and dark
journey and there are hidden dangers along your path. Moreover,
nobody will help you if you busted your working copy or _repository_,
so make backups. You are messing with the internals of SVN, so you
could drive SVN to burn your house or poison your pet. Be warned.

-- 
Jani Averbach 
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