Major Description
If a pre-commit hook fails, svnserve may crash. It appears that the commit function in serve.c is depending on the author and date variables being setup during the svn_ra_svn_drive_editor call, but that is not happening if a pre-commit hook returns an error. So, depending on the stack state, bad pointers may be passed to svn_ra_svn_write_tuple. Simply initializing date and author to NULL or "" seems to work, but I'm not sure if that's the correct fix. Can someone comment on what the appropriate behavior should be here?
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-08/0177.shtml
Original issue reported by djh