The output from the xxd tool is:
0000000: 3f5c 3133 313f 5c31 3936 045b 5d3f 5c31 ?\131?\196.[]?\1
0000010: 3935 3f5c 3134 3176 95?\141v
PS: Daniel, thanks for sharing the correct command to get the log message
bytes.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 23:35, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1148424&view=rev seems related.
>
> It hasn't been backported to 1.6.x.
>
>
> wrt the log message, hard to tell what happened exactly. The right
> output to share is 'svn pget --revprop --strict svn:log | xxd', but at
> a guess it's a non-UTF-8 log message. (so it would need to be recoded
> prior to or during the sync; new versions of svnsync can do that during
> the sync.)
>
>
>
> Jozef Izso wrote on Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 14:10:01 +0200:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to synchronize a repository from the svn server running
> version
> > 1.4.6 (r28521).
> > The svnsync sync stops on a revision that has strange Unicode characters
> in
> > the commit message and displays the "Unknown command 'failure'" message.
> > The svn log command shows this commit message for that revision:
> >
> > Text: ?\131?\196(EOT)[]?\195?\141v
> > Hex: 3f 5c 31 33 31 3f 5c 31 39 36 04 5b 5d 3f 5c 31 39 35 3f 5c 31 34 31
> 76
> >
> > The (EOT) in the message is the End-of-tape character, ASCII 04.
> >
> > If I save the log as XML, this characters are saved:
> >
> > <msg>ƒÄ?\004[]ĂŤv</msg>
> > c4 3f 5c 30 30 34 5b 5d c3 8d 76
> >
> >
> > These are the version of the tools used:
> >
> > svnsync, version 1.6.17 (r1128011)
> > compiled May 30 2011, 14:52:54
> >
> > svnserve, version 1.4.6 (r28521)
> > compiled Dec 20 2007, 16:33:06
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to get this revision synced to the mirror repository?
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jozef Izso.
>
--
Jozef
Received on 2011-08-29 01:48:31 CEST