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Re: Property diff producing wrong results...

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2007-03-19 15:10:18 CET

I plead guilty. I implemented this quick hack eons ago, just so
*something* was visible in propdiffs.

On 3/19/07, David Glasser <glasser@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 3/19/07, John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote:
> > The attached script reproduces the problem. It basically sets
> > svn:ignore to 'a', commits, and then sets svn:ignore to 'a\nb'. The
> > resultant output was:
> > Property changes on: .
> > ___________________________________________________________________
> > Name: svn:ignore
> > - a
> >
> > + a
> > b
> >
> >
> > Notice that there seem to be a few things wrong. The +- a is indented
> > from the rest of the diff, or rather b is not indented. But the real
> > problem is that there should be just a '+ b' at the end.
>
> Yeah, 'svn diff' doesn't actually do diffs for properties: it just
> writes both full versions out with a single - and +. In my opinion it
> would be great if it actually did real diffs for multi-line
> properties. (For example, svn:ignore, or svk's svk:merge and
> svk:mirror properties.)
>
> --dave
>
> --
> David Glasser | glasser_at_mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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