Loading 1.0.5 dumpfile into 1.2.0 - Invalid control character '0x08'

[Andy Grundman <an...@hybridized.org>]

I just upgraded from 1.0.5 with bdb 4.2 to 1.2.0 with fsfs.  I used the 
following commands to convert my repositories from bdb to fsfs:

svnadmin create --fs-type=fsfs local.fsfs
svnadmin dump -q local | svnadmin load local.fsfs

I receive the following error during the load:

* adding path : path/to/dir ... done.
* adding path : path/to/dir ...svnadmin: Invalid control character 
'0x08' in path 'path/to/dir'

The same directory appears twice, first saying "done" and then erroring 
out.  This directory works fine in the bdb repos, and doesn't appear to 
have a backspace character anywhere in the path.  I did a full svnadmin 
dump with my old 1.0.5 version of svnadmin just to be sure the error 
wasn't caused by using a newer svnadmin version.  This resulted in the 
same error.

Is there a way to fix this or work around it?

Thanks,
--
Andy Grundman
andy@hybridized.org

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Re: Loading 1.0.5 dumpfile into 1.2.0 - Invalid control character '0x08'

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Jun 8, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Andy Grundman wrote:

> I just upgraded from 1.0.5 with bdb 4.2 to 1.2.0 with fsfs.  I used  
> the following commands to convert my repositories from bdb to fsfs:
>
> svnadmin create --fs-type=fsfs local.fsfs
> svnadmin dump -q local | svnadmin load local.fsfs
>
> I receive the following error during the load:
>
> * adding path : path/to/dir ... done.
> * adding path : path/to/dir ...svnadmin: Invalid control character  
> '0x08' in path 'path/to/dir'
>
> The same directory appears twice, first saying "done" and then  
> erroring out.  This directory works fine in the bdb repos, and  
> doesn't appear to have a backspace character anywhere in the path.   
> I did a full svnadmin dump with my old 1.0.5 version of svnadmin  
> just to be sure the error wasn't caused by using a newer svnadmin  
> version.  This resulted in the same error.
>
> Is there a way to fix this or work around it?

Yes, remove the 0x08 control character from the dumpfile.

Control characters aren't allowed in path names or log messages, but  
somehow one must have snuck into your repository.  svn 1.2 is more  
aggressive about preventing control characters from entering the  
repository, so that's why you're seeing the error from 1.2 'svnadmin  
load'.


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