Re: Subversion Exception svn_relpath_is_canonical in ra_loader.c

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:28 PM Eliot, Christopher
<christopher.eliot_at_nagrastar.com> wrote:
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Hi Christopher,

> Running TortoiseSVN1.10 (r28148).
>
> Accessing SVN repository as https://ndev-svn01/svn/...
>
> TortoiseSVN had been running for a long time, I had done lots of things in it.
> I right-clicked on a tag and selected "Mark for comparison"
> I clicked on the trunk.
> Can't recall if I clicked "compare URLs" or not.
>
> Ooh. This is repeatable. I shut down TortoiseSVN complete and restarted it.
> Performed the same sequence of events; I get this same exception when I click on
> "compare URLs". I reproduced it a couple of times.
>
> I then selected the trunk and marked it for comparison, selected the tag, and
> was able to to compare them just fine.
>
> I then went back and repeated the original sequence of events and again got the
> exception.

Thanks for taking the time to report this.

However, I'm afraid this community (the "core" subversion project)
can't help you directly. I think it's likely that this problem is
situated somewhere in the TortoiseSVN code (which is a separate
project, for the Windows GUI on top of the Subversion libraries). It
seems it is internally calling the Subversion libraries with a
"non-canonical path". Maybe there is something strange with the urls
that are constructed here?

If you report this to the TortoiseSVN community
(https://tortoisesvn.net/community.html), they might be able to
provide more help or to ask more specific questions to find out what's
going on.

> I'll look into updating TortoisSVN.
>
> When I update to 1.12, it’s unusable. When I click on the directory for my project, I get a popup that just says “TortoisesSVN client has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.” It seems to be a problem with just this project; I can click down into other projects in the same repository. I’ll report that separately.

Here again I think you should probably contact the TSVN community. It
might be related to the first problem (some non-canonical url being
passed to the libraries, specific to that one project). Or it might be
something else.

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> Subversion reported the following
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> In file
> 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.10.0\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_ra\ra_loader.c'
> line 629: assertion failed (svn_relpath_is_canonical(path))
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> OK
>
> Topher Eliot

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Johan