From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:39:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Add details about svn-fe's dumpfile parsing
Message-ID: <20120416213910.GP12613@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4F8C909B.7010507@pileofstuff.org>

Andrew Sayers wrote:

> The dumpfile documentation says that "... property key/value pairs may
> be interpreted as binary data in any encoding by client tools"[1], but
> SVN itself interprets the data as UTF-8

Yes, I suspect most of the changes you proposed for the INPUT FORMAT
section would actually be better as changes for the
dump-load-format.txt document.  I imagine that folks on the dev@ list
might be able to clarify a few details (e.g., what one is expected to
do with historical repositories with non-UTF-8 property data), too.
What do you think?

The patch for svn-fe(1) already looks pretty good.  I was planning on
applying it after finding a moment to clarify the patch description.

Thanks again,
Jonathan