Thanks a lot, Ben, for the explanation.
It makes sense, and I was able to fix it.
2009/7/10 B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs_at_gmail.com>:
> 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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