Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:39:34 +0100: > On 01.12.2010 04:25, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> stef...@apache.org wrote on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 23:56:41 -0000: >>> Author: stefan2 >>> Date: Tue Nov 30 23:56:40 2010 >>> New Revision: 1040831 >>> >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1040831&view=rev >>> Log: >>> Fix 'svnadmin verify' for format 5 repositories. During the checking >>> process, >>> they yield NULL for SHA1 checksums. The most robust way to fix that is to >>> allow NULL for checksum in svn_checksum_to_cstring. This seems justified >>> as NULL is already a valid return value instead of e.g. an empty string. So, >>> callers may receive NULL as result and could therefore assume that NULL is >>> a valid input, too >>> >> Can you explain how to trigger the bug you are fixing? Just running >> 'svnadmin verify' on my r1040058-created Greek repository doesn't. > Sure: > > $svnadmin-1.5.4 create /mnt/svnroot/test > $<add pre-revprop-change hook> > $svnsync-1.5.4 init file:///mnt/svnroot/test http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf > $svnsync-1.5.4 sync file:///mnt/svnroot/test > $<cancel after a few revs; rev 1 will already trigger the error> > $svnadmin-trunk verify /mnt/svnroot/test
And then the dump logic calls svn_fs_file_checksum(force=FALSE), which causes a NULL checksum to be returned. Thanks for the recipe; knowing it it's easier to review the fix. Daniel