On Friday 25 March 2005 07:27, philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at wrote:
> > > But the subversion config file already has an ignore field that
> > > supports multiple file masks in one line: the global-ignores.
> > > Wouldn't it be consistent to allow the same syntax for an
> > > svn:ignore auto-prop?
> >
> > I believe it will. But having a bunch of stuff on a single line is
> > tough to read, especially, when you start working on a number of
> > projects. My 'global-ignores' line is somewhere around 400
> > characters long or more. I imagine at some point, my editor is going
> > to tell me it can handle the long line any more. :-)
>
> Looking through config.c I saw that lines may be broken by starting the
> next line with whitespace - something I didn't read in
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07.html#svn-ch-7-sect-1 (maybe I
> just overlooked something)
> So you don't need such long lines.
Good to know!
> global-ignores is just whitespace-seperated; it would be inconsistent
> to use the same format for the auto-properties (as property
> \n-seperated, in the config-files with whitespace?)
I'm a little confused... why would it be inconsistent to have them both be
whitespace separated? Or at least follow the way auto-props are done
with files? *shrug*
>
> It would look like that:
> [dir-auto-props]
> * = *.o\n*.lo\n*.la\n*~\n
>
> That's not exactly what I call readable. But look at that:
Yeah, that's ugly.
> [dir-auto-props]
> * = *.o\n
> *.lo\n
> *.la\n
> *~\n
> That should be ok.
Eh. I'm not necessarily a fan of that either.
> The other possibility would be to concatenate multiple matching lines
> with an \n in between:
> [dir-auto-props]
> * = *.o
> *.tmp = *.tmp
> * = *.la
> * = *.lo
>
> I believe that we should require explicit \n (or whatever) and not just
> concatenate the property values.
>
>
> If noone tells me otherwise I'd propose to use that (and try to make a
> patch for that).
> But:
> Do we need unicode characters encoded? Are unicode-characters in
> filenames common? How should they be encoded with a \x??-syntax? Do we
> want to have them UTF8-encoded in the config-files?
Good question. I believe everything is expected to be UTF-8 in the config
file, but I haven't confirmed that at all.
-John
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Received on Fri Mar 25 22:25:34 2005