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Re: svn:charset

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:27:54 +0200

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> The svn:charset property is widely used, and has been for years. There
> are even clients (e.g. SmartSVN) that rely on it when diffing files or
> revisions with different encodings.
>
> Is there a good reason why it should not be officially sanctioned and
> documented?
>

Do all the clients that use it expect it to conform to the same specs?
My guess is -- no.

Whoever intruded on the reserved svn: property name namespace should git
off their behind and do the groundwork to make sure all uses are
consistent, then post patches to this list.

-- Brane

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