I corrected the dump-load format documentation in r1652064, with wording similar to the patch I had given here. I confirmed by code inspection that svndumpfilter had behaved this way since Subversion 1.0.
- Julian I (Julian Foad) wrote on 2015-01-13: > 1. When a revision has no revprops, svnadmin outputs an empty properties > section, while svndumpfilter omits the properties section (but adds an extra > newline after where it would have been). > > svnadmin dump: > [[[ > > Revision-number: 1 > Prop-content-length: 10 > Content-length: 10 > > PROPS-END > > ]]] > > svndumpfilter: > [[[ > > Revision-number: 1 > Content-length: 0 > > > ]]] > > The document 'notes/dump-load-format.txt' presently says the properties > section should always be present. I think we have to change that to say it's > optional, as released versions of svndumpfilter behave in this way (at least > v1.7 and v1.8). > > The attached patch 'dump-load-format-no-revprops-1.patch' corrects that > documentation.
