From 6f021e2bcce19e147aab1bade6c292756550a000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fredb <fredb>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:26:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Provide an explanation to why a special case is needed

---
 utils/TerraSync/terrasync.cxx | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils/TerraSync/terrasync.cxx b/utils/TerraSync/terrasync.cxx
index 70ebf87aa..314f55972 100644
--- a/utils/TerraSync/terrasync.cxx
+++ b/utils/TerraSync/terrasync.cxx
@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ int mysvn_setup(void) {
     if (mysvn_pool) return EXIT_SUCCESS;
     // No, so initialize svn internals generally
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
+    // there is a segfault when providing an error stream.
+    //  Apparently, calling setvbuf with a nul buffer is
+    //  not supported under msvc 7.1 ( code inside svn_cmdline_init )
     if (svn_cmdline_init("terrasync", 0) != EXIT_SUCCESS)
         return EXIT_FAILURE;
 #else