The output from the xxd tool is: 0000000: 3f5c 3133 313f 5c31 3936 045b 5d3f 5c31 ?\131?\196.[]?\1 0000010: 3935 3f5c 3134 3176 95?\141v
PS: Daniel, thanks for sharing the correct command to get the log message bytes. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 23:35, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1148424&view=rev seems related. > > It hasn't been backported to 1.6.x. > > > wrt the log message, hard to tell what happened exactly. The right > output to share is 'svn pget --revprop --strict svn:log | xxd', but at > a guess it's a non-UTF-8 log message. (so it would need to be recoded > prior to or during the sync; new versions of svnsync can do that during > the sync.) > > > > Jozef Izso wrote on Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 14:10:01 +0200: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to synchronize a repository from the svn server running > version > > 1.4.6 (r28521). > > The svnsync sync stops on a revision that has strange Unicode characters > in > > the commit message and displays the "Unknown command 'failure'" message. > > The svn log command shows this commit message for that revision: > > > > Text: ?\131?\196(EOT)[]?\195?\141v > > Hex: 3f 5c 31 33 31 3f 5c 31 39 36 04 5b 5d 3f 5c 31 39 35 3f 5c 31 34 31 > 76 > > > > The (EOT) in the message is the End-of-tape character, ASCII 04. > > > > If I save the log as XML, this characters are saved: > > > > <msg>ƒÄ?\004[]ĂŤv</msg> > > c4 3f 5c 30 30 34 5b 5d c3 8d 76 > > > > > > These are the version of the tools used: > > > > svnsync, version 1.6.17 (r1128011) > > compiled May 30 2011, 14:52:54 > > > > svnserve, version 1.4.6 (r28521) > > compiled Dec 20 2007, 16:33:06 > > > > > > Is there a way to get this revision synced to the mirror repository? > > > > > > Best regards, > > Jozef Izso. > -- Jozef
