On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > Dmitry Pavlenko <pavle...@tmatesoft.com> writes: > >> Hi all. >> I've noticed that in SVN 1.7 limit behaviour has changed. Is that expected >> or is that a bug? > >> $ $svn16 log http://localhost:59714/repos -l 10000000000 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> r2 | (no author) | 2012-07-11 13:15:58 +0200 (Срд, 11 Июл 2012) | 1 line >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> r1 | (no author) | 2012-07-11 13:15:58 +0200 (Срд, 11 Июл 2012) | 1 line >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> $ $svn17 log http://localhost:59714/repos -l 10000000000 >> svn: E205000: Non-numeric limit argument given >> svn: E200004: Number '10000000000' is out of range '[-2147483648, >> 2147483647]' > > Internally Subversion always uses a 32-bit value for limit. In 1.6 the > command line parser doesn't detect out-of-range values on the command > and any such values are silently truncated. In 1.7 the command line > parser detects out-of-range values.
Also slightly related, this recent discussion on dev@: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-06/0263.shtml -- Johan
