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Re: Doubt about auto properties

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-10-17 23:14:59 CEST

Philip Martin wrote:

>Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
>
>
>
>>Philip Martin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Martin Furter <mf@rola.ch> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The config is stored in apr hashes so i assume that the value of the
>>>>former one was replaced by that of the latter one when reading the
>>>>config.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>We could check when adding to the hash that the key does not already
>>>exist. It could even be a hard error, just like a config parse
>>>error.
>>>
>>>
>>Yes, I'd say that should be considered a parse error regardless of
>>whether any additional clarification is needed in the autoprops
>>documentation. Are you volunteering?
>>
>>
>
>Was allowing ~/.subversion/config to contain things like
>
> # the second one takes precedence
> global-ignores = *.o
> global-ignores = *.o *.obj
>
>an conscious decision, or is that simply the way it happened to turn
>out?
>
>
It was a conscious decision. It simplifies the parser immensely, and it
especially simplifies the implementation of svn_config_merge. If anyone
wants to go to the trouble of forbidding duplicate option (and section)
names while still making svn_config_merge work, be my guest. I don't
think it's woth the trouble; it'd be much easier to document that a
later occurrence of the same option overrides the previous value.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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