Re: svnadmin: Path '....' is not in UTF-8 - svnadmin load fails

Am Dienstag, den 31.05.2011, 00:30 +0300 schrieb Daniel Shahaf:
> 1.6 checks that paths are in UTF-8 at the time they enter the
> repository. This was always required but not always enforced.

Ok - so 1.6 does things <1.6 did not but should.

>
> Solution is to recode the pathnames (those that are neither in ASCII
> nor
> in UTF-8).

Sorry but your "solution" seems really a little bit odd to me.
If <1.6 did not enforce this and 1.6 does - why does 1.6 not recode it
at the time it does encounter such "things" - at least via some optional
command line option?

Do you really want to tell me that subversion (the "tool" used to manage
my code) is not able to load its own "dump", at least by providing some
"fix" tool by itself if it did things not "right" before - why should i
need or bother with "third-party" tools here - this should be done by
svn, shouldn't it?

> If none of the third-party dump manipulation tools can do
> that,

Which "third-party" tools you have in mind are able to do that for me?

> then you could patch svnsync or one of those tools to do the
> recoding. (just inject a filename-recoding editor at the right place)

Of cause i'll take the source, patch it and get my repo working
again ... nice joke - it was a joke right?

>
> It doesn't show "two UTF-8 characters", since the filename contains
> two
> bytes which do not form a valid UTF-8 sequence.

You're right, my fault.