<pseudo-rant>
Huh, so now I'll have to base64-encode the bitmaps in my author-face,
author-fingerprint and author-retina-pattern properties? What a waste of space.
Well, at least the author-grandmother's-name will remain the same, thank the gods.
</pseudo-rant>
The nice bit is that now we'll be able to actually send useful context diffs for
property patches, not just text file patches. Hm, not so bad after all. :-)
Brane
Quoting Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net>:
> Long ago, we decided (sensibly, imho) that Subversion would set a
> policy of using UTF-8 for log messages. Technically, we didn't have
> to do this, but it aids interoperability by preventing encoding
> anarchy.
>
> Yesterday, Jon Trowbridge pointed out that we really ought to do the
> same for property values. We already do it for certain properties
> whose values are interpreted by Subversion itself (svn:ignore,
> svn:keywords, etc). Jon's point is, why not do other clients the same
> favor we do ourselves? Textual data is useless if you don't know the
> encoding, and if we're hoping for unexpected property usages to arise,
> it'll help a lot to define a standard here.
>
> One response, of course, is "You can't do that, because property
> values are binary!" But no one seems to have needed a binary property
> yet, and it seems much more likely than property values would be text.
> Anyone can base64-encode to get binary values if they really need
> them, but optimizing for textual data seems reasonable.
>
> So the proposal is: let's declare all property values to be textual,
> and do UTF-8/eol conversion. Then svn_prop_needs_translation() can go
> away, and every caller will just do translation unconditionally. We
> will recommend that those who need binary prop values base64 encode
> them.
>
> Any objections?
>
> -Karl (& Mike, Ben, Gstein, Jon)
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Received on Wed Dec 4 18:14:41 2002