Re: [BUG] git-svn fails to rename files with %20 in filename

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 23, 2011, 10:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20110223100431.GD9222@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1298393415.2286.18.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:50:15PM +0000, Will Palmer wrote:

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> > IOW, it looks like the path we hand to svn needs url-encoding even for
> > the local case (which make sense, as it is a file:// url). But I know
> > nothing about svn, so probably I am breaking some other weird non-url
> > local case. :)
> > 
> 
> Unless I've got my line-numbers mixed up, the commit which introduced
> the https-specific encoding behaviour,
> 29633bb91c git-svn: fix commiting renames over DAV with funky file names
> 
> seems to be of the opinion that the bug did not effect file:// and
> svn:// URLs. Has something changed?

Yeah, what we are seeing definitely contradicts that commit. It's been 3.5 years; maybe something was tweaked in the subversion library? I tried reading the code, but I got lost amidst all of the nasty perl bindings. I couldn't find anything relevant in svn's changelog or in google, either.

-Peff