Re: Editing svn:log property on file

Thanks for that. Using svnadmin "dump" and then "load" worked.

I didn't even have to pass the "--bypass-prop-validation" option to the
load command, as it seems the non-UTF8 symbols were converted to a "?" by
the dump command.

-- 
Srdan Dukic
On 30 October 2012 15:57, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Srdan Dukic wrote on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 15:20:24 +1300:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup an subversion replication between two servers (both
> > running version 1.6.11). When I try to replicate the data, I get the
> > following error in the logs:
> ...
> > But still no luck. Can anyone tell me how to modify the "svn:log"
> property
> > on the file itself, as opposed to the revision property? Has anyone seen
> > this issue before?
>
> By the way, there is another solution: you try doing a dump/load of the
> revision that sets the bogus property value.  (Dump from the master,
> load on the slave.)  (You could generate the dump with svnrdump -r N or
> with 'svnadmin dump -r N --deltas --incremental'.)  Pass
> --bypass-prop-validation to 'svnadmin load'.
>
> [ Note for the archives: the sense of the --bypass-prop-validation
> boolean (presence/absence) flag was reversed, for revision properties
> only, up to 1.7.7 (inclusive).  See r1237779. ]
>