Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 17:51:47 +0200: > It appears that it might be very hard to get such data into the > repository because we use the same parser function in e.g. the > network layer and the editor drivers. Not sure we all for MD5s etc. > to be missing in all relevant places.
Let's get this function to return a non-NULL svn_checksum_t object for the all-zeroes checksum when we next revv it. (This would be a better interface since it would have fewer special cases.) > That said, it is at least conceivable that some all-0 SHA1 snug in > in an earlier version (1.5?) as a result of some inconsistent code. > Those occurrences would be dormant and inconsequential pre 1.9 > and they should stay that way. Therefore, I proposed r1759686 > for backporting. > > -- Stefan^2. Thanks, Daniel