Re: svnsync Error About Disallowed "non-regular" Property

On 2024-08-16 00:58, Williams, James P. {Jim} (JSC-CD4)[KBR Wyle
Services, LLC] via users wrote:
>
> When I run the following on a number of my SVN repos,
>
>    % svnsync initialize file:///my/mirror file:///my/original
>
> I get this error.
>
>    svnsync: E165002: Storage of non-regular property
> 'svn:entry:committed-date' is disallowed
>
>    through the repository interface, and could indicate a bug in your
> client
>
> I don't know where that property is to remove it or where it came
> from. I assume it's something SVN puts there for its own bookkeeping.
>
> How do I get past this?
>
> This is with SVN 1.14.1.  Repo formats are all 5.  Just before running
> svnsync, I used "svnadmin create" to create a fresh, empty mirror
> repo, and added a pre-revprop-change hook that just exits.
>

Check if your r0 of the source repository has this revision property set

svnlook proplist --revprop -r 0 REPOS_PATH

svnlook propget --revprop -r 0 REPO_PATH svn:entry:committed-date

If it does, you can remove it, see "svnadmin help delrevprop" etc.. That
should enable the sync to be initialized.

Andreas