Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 18:29, Chia-liang Kao wrote:
> > So when a file has identical content on two branches (or it's the same
> > node - not modified after the copy), switching between the branches
> > won't update the keywords since the ra->do_switch or dir_delta don't
> > bother call open_file at all.
>
> I've seen someone bring this up on IRC a while back, although it doesn't
> seem to have resulted in an issue. I'll file one.
>
> The solution to this problem is probably a pass over the entries files
> looking for svn:keywords properties which are affected by the switch.
> Note that a very similar process would allow us to support a global
> revision number substitution, which would make a bunch of users happy.
This also is a problem when 'svn merge' adds a file. Keywords are not
translated then either. It makes svn:special behave a little
weirdly...
-Josh
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Received on Wed Jul 28 00:55:59 2004