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Re: Issue #2064

From: Peter N. Lundblad <peter_at_famlundblad.se>
Date: 2004-10-18 23:06:57 CEST

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On Oct 14, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to solve issue #2064, which is about merge failing to create
> > symlinks (and expand keywords for that matter). It would be nice to
> > have
> > this in 1.1.1 if possible, but it is no show-stopper. It's ugly though.
> >
> > The problem is that the diff editor is designed to provide file
> > changes/additions in a callback and property changes in another
> > callback.
> > So, when a file is merged, the old properties are still in effect.
> > What is
> > necessary to do is to have the file retranslated (keywords expanded
> > and so
> > on) when properties are merged. The problem is that I find no way
> > outside
> > of libsvn_wc to do this. I tried svn_wc_merge with identical left and
> > right files, but that function was too smart. I.e. it didn't expand if
> > the
> > file wasn't changed. Has anyone got an idea how to solve this? For
> > 1.2, we
> > can have a public function for this. Maybe we should just punt and
> > document this as a known pbolem?
>
> Peter: I fear that this is just a design flaw in the diff/merge
> callback system. I don't know what to do other than design a new set
> of callbacks make the diff editor use them; it would have to be a new
> API added in 1.2. I can't see a 1.1.X solution. :-(
>
Yes. This is my conclusion. That's why I moved the issue out of the 1.1.x
milestone. I'm thinking of a new svn_wc_dif_callbacks_t that combine
content and prop changes for file adds/changes into one function call.

> I agree that we should somehow announce this bug: it's a pretty big
> deal that 'svn merge' cannot create symlinks, expand keywords, or
> translate EOLs.
>
It is ugly, but for the symlink case, you can recreate the link by hand,
so there is a workaround. Hmmm, where do we announce known bugs so people
see them easily?

Thanks,
//Peter

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