Note: I was using the GNU Nano repository (svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/nano) to test my changes, but it's not ideal because the first commit where the --source-encoding feature is needed is revision 619. Also, as of now, 29 of the 4518 commits have non-ASCII log messages with 21 encoded in ISO-8859-1 and the rest encoded in UTF-8. Therefore, to facilitate testing I created a "test" repository.
The test repository (attached) was created with Subversion version 1.6.12 (r955767) on a Debian Squeeze AMD64 system. The repository has two commits, one made by "alíce" and the other made by "bob". The first commit has an `svn:author` revprop that is ISO-8859-1-encoded and the second has an `svn:log` revprop that is ISO-8859-1-encoded. After applying my patch and recompiling `svnsync`, QA can test with the script at: http://pastebin.com/g0n9uqYr #! /usr/bin/env sh tar zxvf test.tar.gz svn log file://`pwd`/test svnadmin create test_mirror cat <<'EOF' > test_mirror/hooks/pre-revprop-change #! /usr/bin/env sh USER="$3" if [ "$USER" = "svnsync" ]; then exit 0; fi echo "Only the svnsync user can change revprops" >&2 exit 1 EOF chmod +x test_mirror/hooks/pre-revprop-change svnsync init --username svnsync \ --source-encoding ISO-8859-1 \ file://`pwd`/test_mirror file://`pwd`/test svnsync sync --username svnsync \ --source-encoding ISO-8859-1 \ file://`pwd`/test_mirror svn log file://`pwd`/test_mirror
test.tar.gz
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