Assertion failed: is_canonical (base, blen)

I originally raised this on the vss2svn mailing list. I was advised that I
was seeing a subversion issue rather than something in vss2svn and should
bring it up on the subversion lists.

I'm running vss2svn.pl (revision 51) as a perl script on Windows XP with
perl 5.8. I'm running against subversion 1.2.0 on Apache 2.0.54.

I'm getting an assertion error "Assertion failed: is_canonical (base,
blen),".

The logfile.txt from vss2svn contains the following error: -

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**** SETTING UP SUBVERSION DIRECTORIES ****

   Checking out working copy...
Assertion failed: is_canonical (base, blen), file
C:\Home\brane\src\svn\subversion-1.2.0-rc4\subversion\libsvn_subr\path.c,
line 114

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

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I've attached the complete logfile as well. Are there any other diagnostics
that would help?

I've tried adding a "/" to the end of the Subversion URL to no avail (as
suggested by the vss2svn guys).

The vss2svn DOS window looks like this: -

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G:\Subversion>perl vss2svn.pl.rev51 --vssproject
$/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant --svnrepo
http://mementotest/VSSMarkImp --noprompt --nolabel

Cleaning up any previous vss2svn runs...

         ss.exe Found: F:\Visual_Source_Safe\win32\ss.exe

          VSS Project: $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant
       Subversion URL: http://mementotest/VSSMarkImp

    Local Date Format: DD/MM/YY
    Local Time Format: HH:MM
 Time Bias To Get GMT: -60 minutes
   Bias to use in DST: -60 minutes

     Set SVN revprops: yes

**** Creating database... ****

**** BUILDING INITIAL STRUCTURES; PLEASE WAIT... ****

**** Enqueueing projects... ****

**** BUILDING VSS HISTORY ****

**** IMPORTING FILE HISTORIES ****

   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/Build.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/Compiler.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/Configure.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/JarBuilder.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/MITask.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/VersionControl.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/VersionNumber.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/WarBuilder.java
   $/MarketingImprovements/src/com/markimp/ant/configure.properties

**** DONE BUILDING VSS HISTORY ****

**** SETTING UP SUBVERSION DIRECTORIES ****

   Checking out working copy.

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Regards,

Steve Nash

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