Don't and don't. If you want to see what values cross the network, go to the validation function in libsvn_repos/fs-wrap.c that generates the error message you get.
And I _am_ a developer, and I already asked you not to file a bug. Please don't until you have identified a problem we don't already know about. Thanks. Srdan Dukic wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:59:38 +1300: > Thank you for your help. I'll try and turn on debugging on the dav_svn > module to see what actual values are being passed across the network and if > that doesn't turn up anything, I guess I'll just ask on the dev mailing list > or open a bug. > > Thanks again > -- > Srdan Dukic > > On 11 October 2011 08:40, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > > Your revprops values are all ASCII and LF linefeeds, so r6107 should > > get committed to the mirror without issue. The --source-prop-encoding > > is new in 1.7. > > > > So, yes, if you're still seeing the error *while syncing r6107* (i.e., > > mirror HEAD is r6106), I'm not really sure what's going on. > > > > Srdan Dukic wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:29:04 +1300: > > > > Odd. Perhaps some other revision property of that revision contains > > > > non-UTF-8? > > > > > > > > > > The other revision properties are: > > > > > > # svn proplist --revprop -r 6107 http://subversion/project/Flow > > > Unversioned properties on revision 6107: > > > svn:log > > > svn:author > > > svn:date > > > > > > > > > > > > The actual value of the svn:log property is: > > > > > > > > > > > > "When printing a form through the full task list the client's TEF > > > > number > > > > > > has <B> and </B> beside it (for cds)." > > > > > > > > > > > > Which doesn't have any characters that should need any UTF8 > > handling. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > svn propget --revprop -rN --strict svn:log | xxd > > > > > > > > > > When I look at the contents of the properties, they all seem to be in > > > regular ASCII: > > > > > > # svn propget --revprop -r 6107 --strict svn:author > > > http://subversion/project/Flow | xxd > > > 0000000: 5869 6e67 Xing > > > > > > # svn propget --revprop -r 6107 --strict svn:date > > > http://subversion/project/Flow | xxd > > > 0000000: 3230 3034 2d30 342d 3238 5430 313a 3331 2004-04-28T01:31 > > > 0000010: 3a34 302e 3030 3030 3030 5a :40.000000Z > > > > > > # svn propget --revprop -r 6107 --strict svn:log > > > http://subversion/project/Flow | xxd > > > 0000000: 5768 656e 2070 7269 6e74 696e 6720 6120 When printing a > > > 0000010: 666f 726d 2074 6872 6f75 6768 2074 6865 form through the > > > 0000020: 2066 756c 6c20 7461 736b 206c 6973 7420 full task list > > > 0000030: 7468 6520 636c 6965 6e74 2773 204e 4849 the client's NHI > > > 0000040: 206e 756d 6265 7220 6861 7320 3c42 3e20 number has <B> > > > 0000050: 616e 6420 3c2f 423e 2062 6573 6964 6520 and </B> beside > > > 0000060: 6974 2028 666f 7220 6364 7329 2e it (for cds). > > > > > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you solve it? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > svnsync sync --source-prop-encoding > > > > > > > > > > > Is this a valid option to pass to svnsync? When I attempt to run svnsync > > > with this option, I get the following error: > > > > > > svnsync: invalid option: --source-prop-encoding > > > > > > The only other thing I can think of is that the original commit may have > > > been done on a windows machine where the locale was set to some > > non-english > > > value, but even then, the properties seem to all be in plain ASCII > > > > > > Thank you > > > -- > > > Srdan Dukic > >