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Re: Export behavior (was Re: [PATCH] svn export needs tests (issue 506))

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-11-09 19:23:37 CET

John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> writes:
> That was actually a great idea, it seems to have brought up a couple of
> issues. Let's say I modify my working copy so that A/mu now has a property
> set on it (svn:eol-style) and I've appended new text to it. If I export the
> working copy, should I see the new property I set get applied? I ask,
> because right now if I export a working copy that has modified properties
> (but not committed), I don't see the new properties applied in the export
> operation. The documentation for export says "All local changes will be
> preserved, but files not under revision control will not be copied." Well,
> technically setting a property but not committing it is a local change, and
> I'm not seeing it get exported.
>
> So what's the right behavior here? Should export be applying these new
> properties? If not, then should we update the documentation to reflect this
> fact? If export should be applying these properties, should I open an issue?

Yeah, I think it should use the working props & text, not the base
props & text. But I have to admit, I've never really understood the
use cases for our "export a working copy" functionality, and so
wouldn't consider these to be pre-1.0 bugs (just IMHO).

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