Re: svnsync: Cannot accept 'svn:log' property because it is not encoded in UTF-8

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:58, Marc Lustig<ml_at_marclustig.com> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I am trying to mirror a 1.5.1 based repo using a 1.6.3 client and mirror-repo
>
> The svnsync command failes after about 20000 revs with following error message:
>
> svnsync: Cannot accept 'svn:log' property because it is not encoded in UTF-8
>
> I had no hit on google for that message,
> Could somebody please elaborate what is the proper way to fix that and
> to make svnsync to work?
>
> Do I have to edit the log properties?

Yes, I believe so. Subversion has always *wanted* svn:log to be proper
UTF-8, but only started enforcing this with 1.6.0.

Older clients with misconfigured encoding can submit wrongly encoded
log messages to older servers. 1.6.0 and later clients will not make
this error, and 1.6.0 servers will refuse such log messages. And
that's what's tripping up svnsync.

Unfortunately, there's no way for 1.6.0 to know what the user meant
when it encounters a log message that's not UTF-8 encoded (without
further information, it would amount to guessing the encoding).

// Ben

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