Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> writes: > 'd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' is the MD5 of the empty string and > Subversion has special handling of that checksum.
I made a mistake here. 'd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' is the checksum of the empty string: $ echo -n | md5sum d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e - but that's not the checksum that has special handling in Subversion. The zero checksum is the checksum with special handling, it is created by svn_checksum_create and svn_checksum_clear, it has a digest that is all zeros, and it matches any other checksum of the same kind. -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
