[Svnmerge] svnmerge.py init crashes (on bad characters in svn xml log)
Raman Gupta
rocketraman at fastmail.fm
Wed Oct 7 10:16:13 PDT 2009
Jean-Philippe Daigle wrote:
> Doesn't look like I can fix my immediate problem, though, seeing how svn
> now complains about the data in there being invalid (and it's correct,
> that is invalid UTF-8, AFAIK). I bet making that commit message today
> would be impossible, but I just realized that SVN commit is so old it
> was ported over with cvs2svn years ago when we switched over to SVN.
>
> $ svn propedit --revprop -r 1863 svn:log
> svn: Valid UTF-8 data
> (hex: 62 6c 69 73 68 65 72 73 2c 20 69 66 20 74 68 65 79 20 63 68 65 63
> 6b 20)
> followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
> (hex: 93 53 65 6e)
Try propset rather than propedit. I think propset should ignore the
invalid data currently set and just replace it with the correct value.
Cheers,
Raman
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