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Re: Multi-line property diffs on Win32 are diffed as a single-line ?

From: Francois Beausoleil <fbos_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Date: 2003-09-11 05:42:44 CEST

Ok, found issue 1493.

Thanks,
François

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:20:21 -0400, "Garrett Rooney"
<rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> said:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> > "Francois Beausoleil" <fbos@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> >
> >
> >>Is that result expected, or should I file an enhancement or bug report ?
> >
> >
> > The result is expected, only in the sense that our property diffing
> > code is completely unaware of 'lines'. It just understands 'values'
> > -- either two values are the same, or they're different, or one or
> > both values is non-existent. It's pretty dumb code. It only knows
> > how to print
> >
> > - oldvalue
> > + newvalue
> >
> > or
> >
> > + newvalue
> >
> > or
> >
> > - newvalue
> >
> >
> > So maybe we need an 'enhancement' request filed: property diffing
> > code should stop treating all values as single units.
>
> I actually filed an issue about what would be required to fix this, but
> I think it's morphed somewhat so that it may no longer mention property
> diffs anymore. The diff code currently can't just be run on two
> arbitrary buffers (well, parts can, but the part that outputs the
> unified diffs can't), so you can't easily use it to generate a diff
> between two property values. I believe Sander is looking at fixing this
> as part of making libsvn_diff more streamy, so once that's done it would
> just be a 'small matter of programming' to fix the property diffs.
>
> -garrett
>
Developer of Java Gui Builder
http://jgb.sourceforge.net/

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