Re: git-svn dcommits messages not in UTF-8 charset to mod_dav_svn?

> Greetings,
>
> I had tried to use git cvsimport and git svn to transfer a CVS repository 
> (I have access to it) to an SVN repository (where I don't have access to  
> the repo, so I cannot use cvs2svn or similar).
>
> The problem is that the CVS repo had non-UTF-8 commit log messages, and I 
> didn't bother to convert them to UTF-8. However, SVN insists on encoding  
> filenames and log messages in UTF-8.
>
> "git svn dcommit" (which uses the SVN Perl bindings under the hood)  
> happily committed such a non-UTF-8 message and br0ke the repo. The actual 
> reason is that the SVN server (https://...) is now wedged, as in:

> While mod_dav_svn arguably shouldn't accept b0rked messages, git-svn  
> shouldn't attempt to commit them either. It seems that the svn command  
> line utilities validate the message format by themselves, and apparently  
> the svn server module (likely mod_dav_svn - or are there others?) does 
> not.