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Re: Subversion mangling names in .svn/entries metadata file


On 10/22/2010 10:51 AM, J.C. Wren wrote:
> I updated my Cygwin install a couple days ago, and have ran into a
> problem with Subversion mangling the .svn/entries file.

Looks like you updated to Cygwin 1.7.5. You might want to try 1.7.7.

> Looking in the .svn/entries file, the first file name should read
> 
>      http://amzatlanta.com/svn_amzatlanta/sx_gfm/trunk
>      http://amzatlanta.com/svn_amzatlanta/sx_gfm
> 
> but is actually encoded as
> 
>      h\x74\x74p://\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61.\x63\x6f\x6d/\x73\x76n_\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61/\x73\x78_g\x66\x6d/\x74\x72\x75nk
>      h\x74\x74p://\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61.\x63\x6f\x6d/\x73\x76n_\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61/\x73\x78_g\x66\x6d
> 
> One person in #cygwin speculated it might be a locale issue.

This is indeed odd. I use subversion every day and don't have this
problem, but I also have "LANG=C.UTF-8" defined in my environment. You
might want to try that.

Otherwise, I'd have to reproduce this locally to investigate further,
and I don't think I have access to that repository.

-- 
David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org

Volunteer Cygwin Subversion maintainer.

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