Nathan Hartman wrote on Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 10:42:39 -0500: > +<div class="h3" id="svn-4722"> > +<h3>Commit can fail with an undeserved "Filesystem is corrupt" error > + <a class="sectionlink" href="#svn-4722" > + title="Link to this section">¶</a> > +</h3> > + > +<p>See issue 4722, "checksum fail during commit when delta is 16K". > +</p> > + > +<p>When using a Subversion 1.9.7 server, a commit may fail with an > +undeserved SHA1 collision error: "E160000: SHA1 of reps ... and ... > +matches (...) but contents differ." For details, see > +<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4722?issueNumber=4722"; > +>issue 4722, "checksum fail during commit when delta is 16K"</a>. This > +bug affects the 1.9.7 release only. A fix for this problem has been > +included in the 1.9.9 release (1.9.8 was not publicly released). > +</p> > +
Change «"Filesystem is corrupt"» in the section title to match the actual error message? > I know it's not terribly high priority to go back and fill in old > release notes but it seems to me (based on discussions and questions > we get) that many people are still using 1.9.7 on the server. Some are > using older OS distros. Others are using Subversion packages that > install onto a NAS. In any case, they have 1.9.7 because they haven't > received updates. Maybe they don't see any issues in the release notes > affecting versions later than 1.9.6 so they don't think it's important > to update. There were multiple security issues fixed in later 1.9 patch releases; see https://subversion.apache.org/security/ > There are other bugs fixes in later 1.9.x as well. It's better to > write it down than to keep it in my head.
