Comment 6 for bug 235776

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 235776] Re: infinite loop in CachingLogWalker.fetch_revisions

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Martin von Gagern wrote:
> Yes, this does look like another bug on the subversion side.
> Probably an incompatibility between the 1.5 library and an 1.4
> server out there.
>
> I had a look at the network traffic from both my failing svn-1.5
> setup and the working 1.4 ubuntu binary package. Two notable
> differences:
>
> 1. the old lib passes <S:path></S:path> along with the log-report
> request. So setting the path to [""] instead of ["/"] or None
> should be a solution that works with all libraries, getting rid of
> the version check and avoiding complaints by the assertion check
> inside subversion. I guess that's the correct (i.e. working) fix
> for bug 229419.
There is a difference between [""] and ["/"] - [""] means the current
directory, ["/"] means the root of the repository. This is relevant
since it is not always possible to connect to the root of the repository.

Cheers,

jelmer

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