On Mar 17, 2010, at 00:08, Dmitry Savvateev wrote: > I've ran into the following problem with svnsync on Windows Vista. > I'm trying to mirror a repository from my flash drive to the local > disk, and keep getting the following message: > > svnsync: Cannot accept 'svn:sync-lock' property because it is not > encoded in UTF-8 > > What's wrong here? I've been doing the same thing many times before, > on Windows and Linux, and never seen anything like this.
Subversion requires properties to be UTF-8. This wasn't enforced before, but now is, as of Subversion 1.6.something, I think. If you have non-UTF-8 properties on old revisions, you have to re-encode them to UTF-8 manually.
