Subversion client errors silently drop svn metadata

Bug #523592 reported by Matt Giuca
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Matt Giuca

Bug Description

If a Subversion client error occurs in a directory listing, rather than raising an exception, it will simply return a directory listing containing no SVN metadata.

For the end user, this manifests itself as:
a) The file listing will simply display the directory as if it was not a working directory. (i.e., there will be no ticks next to files), and Subversion commands are inaccessible.
b) The special home will report the directory as "blocked" rather than a valid checkout. This is because it will ask for a dir listing of the directory and check whether it has SVN metadata; since it doesn't, it assumes it is some other directory you put there.

This occurs because there is no checking done of the ClientError returned by PySvn.

Tags: subversion

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Matt Giuca (mgiuca)
tags: added: subversion
removed: svn
Revision history for this message
Matt Giuca (mgiuca) wrote :

Fixed in trunk r1627.

Changed in ivle:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in ivle:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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