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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Harco de Hilster <ha...@ATConsultancy.nl> on 2004/05/04 06:46:44 UTC

Re: bugreport: filename containing a ? imports ok, but checkout fails

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>Harco de Hilster <ha...@ATConsultancy.nl> writes:
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>>Description:
>>
>>Filenames with a ? character import ok, but a checkout of the tree fails
>>with an XML parse error: non welformed xml ..... in a internal svn file.
>>(Sorry lost the exact filename). The isssue is reproduceable.
>>
>>Steps:
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>>- I did an import of an existing source tree. One of the files contained
>>a '?' mark in it the filename. Probably the result of an incorrect
>>character set translation. Although unpractical, a '?' is a valid
>>character in a filename. The import completed ok.
>>
>>- A checkout of the just imported tree proceded fine upto the '?' file.
>>Then the checkout failed with the XML parse error msg.
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>You were checking out over http:// or https://, right?
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Yes over https. I've included a tar.gz file with the 'offending' 
filenames. These files give all sorts of trouble
with other utitlites as well, but it shouldn't break the svn repository.

Thanks for your response,

Harco

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