Re: Broken SVN revision paths encoding

Thanks Bert for your answer. I've used the latest tortoisehg which used to
ship the subversion bindings but stopped to do so. That is entirely
documented here:

https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/libsvn

The server on the other ends dates back to 2011. I believe it is something
along 1.4, but I might be wrong and will eventually correct myself tomorrow
morning.

For the completeness of the story let me outline what happened:

Beforehand, as you might have guessed I am using hg as my local svn client
because of obvious reasons (working offline, faster history queries and
faster working copy queries among others).

I've copied some random files that had to be versioned from a network share
without knowing that the filenames might be encoded badly. When I tried to
check in the files in question tortoisehg complained that he could not find
the file. That should have got me thinking, but getting the job done was
fairly easy using the command line and thus I did not bother. So then I
"pushed" the changesets to svn which worked flawlessly. But then the
continuous integration system began to complain and I started to comprehend
that I've messed it up for good. And it proved that i was not wrong in my
assumption.

We're now unable to svn log, nore the build/test environments and we have
to find a way to fix the issue and eventually find a solution to prevent
future trouble. Ideas welcome..

Cheers
 What client (including version) did you use to commit… and against what
kind of server?

Subversion's clients properly encode characters to utf-8 as far as we know,
but perhaps you used some not standard client for the commit.
(Newer servers should perform more verifications; that is why that answer
is also relevant)

Bert

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*From:* dpsenner_at_apache.org
*Sent:* ‎Tuesday‎, ‎July‎ ‎28‎, ‎2015 ‎4‎:‎11‎ ‎PM
*To:* users_at_subversion.apache.org

Hi there,

Somehow I was able to commit a file with a broken filename encoding and now
the svn client can no longer process the log messages from the server! For
example I commited the file “fooä.bar” and when I then try to svn log I get
this:

svn: E130003: The REPORT response contains invalid XML (200 OK)

However, in wireshark I can see this coming in (stripped to the interesting
lines):

<S:log-item>

<S:added-path>foo\344.file</S:added-path>

</S:log-item>

The clients svn is not the latest, but a newer version does not work either:

>svn –version

svn, version 1.8.10 (r1615264)

   compiled Aug 10 2014, 15:48:46 on x86-microsoft-windows

Any good ideas how we can bring the repository back to be fully functional?

Cheers
Received on 2015-07-28 21:40:47 CEST