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Re: validate_eol_prop_against_file() inefficiency?

From: David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:55:27 -0500

On Jan 2, 2008 1:53 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> Mark Phippard wrote:
> > On Dec 28, 2007 1:13 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> >> While updating the svnbook, I noticed something odd. In Subversion 1.4,
> >> when you try to set svn:eol-style on a binary file, you get the obvious error:
> >>
> >> % svn pset svn:eol-style CRLF suse.png
> >> svn: File 'suse.png' has binary mime type property
> >>
> >> In trunk, however, you get something far more bizarre:
> >>
> >> % svn pset svn:eol-style CRLF suse.png
> >> subversion/libsvn_wc/props.c:2425: (apr_err=200009)
> >> svn: File 'suse.png' has inconsistent newlines
> >> subversion/libsvn_subr/subst.c:736: (apr_err=135000)
> >> svn: Inconsistent line ending style
> >>
> >> I see that libsvn_wc/props.c:validate_eol_prop_against_file() has been
> >> ordered differently in trunk. What I can't figure out is why the
> >> far-more-expensive newline consistency check was moved ahead of the
> >> super-cheap is-binary check? Besides being really inefficient, the new
> >> error is just not as clear.
> >>
> >> Was this fallout from the URL propsetting support or something?
> >
> > Not sure, but wasn't there also a patch recently to add validation of
> > the eol-style values? Perhaps that is when this happened.
>
> Well, I'm going to make the obvious optimization (which will restore the
> more-obvious error message in the case presented).

I'm currently running tests against a patch to fix this.

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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