On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:44 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> David Glasser wrote:
>> On 9/10/07, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net> wrote:
>>> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>>>> One we might need to push to a new release if no one steps
>>>>> forward:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2238: svn propset/del/edit does not support URL argument
>>>>>
>>>> Argh, are we *still* debating this issue? We already added 'svn
>>>> propedit URL' support. I suppose I can understand adding 'svn
>>>> propdel
>>>> URL' support (since we already support 'svn rm URL')... but I'm
>>>> really
>>>> against 'svn propset URL', and the issue claims there's still no
>>>> consensus on that. I guess we should at least update the issue's
>>>> summary.
>>> Just out of curiousity -- what happens when you use 'svn propedit
>>> URL' to
>>> set svn:eol-style to, say, 'CRLF'? IIRC, the Subversion client
>>> would
>>> usually normalize the working file to RNF in this case, but
>>> (obviously)
>>> doesn't have the opportunity to do so in this URL-based propedit
>>> case.
>>
>> Erk. I did make sure to keep the validation code working (ie, the
>> propedit will fail if the EOL style is completely inconsistent),
>> but I
>> don't think I made it change the text. This is probably broken,
>> then.
>
> Yeah, I followed up in IRC with what happens. It's a little weird.
> Basically, the next time folks update their working copies, it
> seems to be
> no big deal. The file whose props were changed is reset to have
> the right
> line-ending style and everything, but the file shows no diffs or
> interesting
> status. However, if you then change anything in that file,
> suddenly the
> whole thing becomes a massive line-ending replacement diff. That
> means if
> two people happen to work on the file simultaneously, the loser of the
> commit race will get a whole-file conflict region. :-(
David, would you file an issue for this problem so that we have it in
the tracker?
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Received on Wed Sep 12 23:54:29 2007