RE: svn: E120104: ra_serf: An error occurred during decompression

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcorvel_at_gmail.com]
Sent: 09 September 2013 13:36
To: James French
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: svn: E120104: ra_serf: An error occurred during decompression

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM, James French <James.French_at_naturalmotion.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
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> I hit this when doing a reintegrate merge with svn 1.8.3 (tortoisesvn
> 1.8.2). I repeated the operation with svn 1.7.8 and it did not occur.

This looks very much like the error I ran into during testing of 1.8.3, and which spawned the following discussion on the dev-list:

    http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2013-08/0386.shtml

(it was with an 'svn export' over plain http of a tag of the subversion project itself, but the problem might be the same)

Lieven Govaerts and Ivan Zhakov have been trying to find the exact problem in the serf http-library (with me trying various patches and reproducing the issue), but so far without success.

It's good to know that now I'm not the only one seeing this problem.

Likewise :-)

Can you report your OS version please?

Windows7 x64

Can you reproduce it with Antivirus disabled?

I'm first trying with 1.8.3, then I'll try without antivirus/compression. Takes a long time as it's a massive checkout.

Also: I couldn't reproduce the issue with compression disabled, by adding the option
    --config-option servers:global:http-compression=off
to the command line (or configure that setting in your 'servers'
configuration file). That might be a workaround for you (though it will probably make things go a lot slower).

--
Johan