Re: svnsync UTF8 problem

Thank you for your help. I'll try and turn on debugging on the dav_svn
module to see what actual values are being passed across the network and if
that doesn't turn up anything, I guess I'll just ask on the dev mailing list
or open a bug.

Thanks again

-- 
Srdan Dukic
On 11 October 2011 08:40, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Your revprops values are all ASCII and LF linefeeds, so r6107 should
> get committed to the mirror without issue.  The --source-prop-encoding
> is new in 1.7.
>
> So, yes, if you're still seeing the error *while syncing r6107* (i.e.,
> mirror HEAD is r6106), I'm not really sure what's going on.
>
> Srdan Dukic wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:29:04 +1300:
> > > Odd.  Perhaps some other revision property of that revision contains
> > > non-UTF-8?
> > >
> >
> > The other revision properties are:
> >
> > # svn proplist --revprop -r 6107 http://subversion/project/Flow
> > Unversioned properties on revision 6107:
> >   svn:log
> >   svn:author
> >   svn:date
> >
> >
> > > > > The actual value of the svn:log property is:
> > > > >
> > > > > "When printing a form through the full task list the client's TEF
> > > number
> > > > > has <B> and </B> beside it (for cds)."
> > > > >
> > > > > Which doesn't have any characters that should need any UTF8
> handling.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > svn propget --revprop -rN --strict svn:log | xxd
> > >
> >
> > When I look at the contents of the properties, they all seem to be in
> > regular ASCII:
> >
> > # svn propget --revprop -r 6107 --strict svn:author
> > http://subversion/project/Flow | xxd
> > 0000000: 5869 6e67                                Xing
> >
> > # svn propget --revprop -r 6107 --strict svn:date
> > http://subversion/project/Flow | xxd
> > 0000000: 3230 3034 2d30 342d 3238 5430 313a 3331  2004-04-28T01:31
> > 0000010: 3a34 302e 3030 3030 3030 5a              :40.000000Z
> >
> > # svn propget --revprop -r 6107 --strict svn:log
> > http://subversion/project/Flow | xxd
> > 0000000: 5768 656e 2070 7269 6e74 696e 6720 6120  When printing a
> > 0000010: 666f 726d 2074 6872 6f75 6768 2074 6865  form through the
> > 0000020: 2066 756c 6c20 7461 736b 206c 6973 7420   full task list
> > 0000030: 7468 6520 636c 6965 6e74 2773 204e 4849  the client's NHI
> > 0000040: 206e 756d 6265 7220 6861 7320 3c42 3e20   number has <B>
> > 0000050: 616e 6420 3c2f 423e 2062 6573 6964 6520  and </B> beside
> > 0000060: 6974 2028 666f 7220 6364 7329 2e         it (for cds).
> >
> > > > Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you solve it?
> > > > >
> > >
> > > svnsync sync --source-prop-encoding
> > >
> > >
> > Is this a valid option to pass to svnsync? When I attempt to run svnsync
> > with this option, I get the following error:
> >
> > svnsync: invalid option: --source-prop-encoding
> >
> > The only other thing I can think of is that the original commit may have
> > been done on a windows machine where the locale was set to some
> non-english
> > value, but even then, the properties seem to all be in plain ASCII
> >
> > Thank you
> > --
> > Srdan Dukic
>