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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.153.2.25"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2012-06-27T02:48:31Z"
+ content="""
+I don't think this has to do with the path name of the repository containing utf-8 at all.
+
+Your recipe for reproducing this depends on some pre-existing repository that I don't know how to set up to reproduce this bug. All I can guess is that, based on the \"decodeUtf8\" in the error message, it's coming from the one part of the code that still uses that, the union merger.
+
+
+"""]]