Re: Error doing a svnsync

On Feb 8, 2012, at 20:00 , Phil Pinkerton wrote:

> We have been doing a few hundred svnsync's from a 1.6.5 repositories
> to 1.7.2 repositories
>
> for the most par this has gone quite well. but we have encountered an
> error that is not to clear and we seek any insight to this error:
>
> svnsync: E000022: Valid UTF-8 data
> (hex: 53 65 72 76 65 72 20 43 75 72 72 65 6e 63 79 20)
> followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
> (hex: 96 20 42 61)

Indeed, the 0x96 is invalid in UTF-8.

>>> "".join([chr(int(n, 16)).decode("utf-8") for n in "53 65 72 76 65 72 20 43 75 72 72 65 6e 63 79 20".split()])
u'Server Currency '

>>> "".join([chr(int(n, 16)).decode("utf-8") for n in "96 20 42 61".split()])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 0: invalid start byte

Does that text appear in a log message? The 1.7 server is stricter
about UTF-8.

The svnsync command has a new option --source-prop-encoding,
which may be useful if some old client committed a log message in
some other encoding.

Regards,
Steve
Received on 2012-02-08 22:29:00 CET