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Re: svn commit: r37008 - trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:51:57 +0200

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 09:58, Bert Huijben <rhuijben_at_sharpsvn.net> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
>> [mailto:Arfrever.FTA_at_GMail.Com]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 3:18 AM
>> To: svn_at_subversion.tigris.org
>> Subject: svn commit: r37008 - trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest
>>
>> Author: arfrever
>> Date: Sat Apr  4 18:17:40 2009
>> New Revision: 37008
>>
>> Log:
>> Follow-up to r37006:
>>
>> * subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/wc.py
>>   (State.from_wc): # Normalize line endings on Windows.
>>
>> Modified:
>>    trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/wc.py
>>
>> Modified: trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/wc.py
>> URL:
>> http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest
>> /wc.py?pathrev=37008&r1=37007&r2=37008
>> =======================================================================
>> =======
>> --- trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/wc.py      Sat Apr  4
>> 17:25:19 2009 (r37007)
>> +++ trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/wc.py      Sat Apr  4
>> 18:17:40 2009 (r37008)
>> @@ -492,6 +492,8 @@ class State:
>>          node = os.path.join(dirpath, name)
>>          if os.path.isfile(node):
>>            contents = open(node, 'rb').read()
>> +          if sys.platform == 'win32':
>> +            contents = contents.replace('\r\n', '\n')
>>            try:
>>              contents = contents.decode()
>>            except UnicodeDecodeError:
>
>
> -1 on this approach of hiding newline problems. (Not the first time I
> mention this)
>
> On windows in text a "\r\n" is good, a "\n" is an error. And the test suite
> must error on this condition like it always did.
>
>
> This hides all these possible errors in our test suite. Each line MUST END
> with a "\r\n", or most other tools will fail.
>
> E.g. you would hide errors like the ones you introduced by merging the svn
> patch branch..
> or with properties that contain invalid end of line sequences by just
> ignoring the "\r"..
> or by svn diff that sometimes uses the wrong line endings (Some cases with
> svn:eol-style native).
>
> You are still trying to fix things for a handful of python 3 users, by
> reducing the usefulness of the test suite for millions of Windows users.
>
>
> The approach of moving the tests to Unicode, instead of comparing the actual
> bytes from svn is the wrong approach.. The output must match byte after
> byte, in the right character set.. or all scripts depending on subversion
> will break.
>
> This breaks another class of usages of our test suite. (character set
> differences)

I concur with Bert. Please back out your encode/decode changes and the
line-ending rewriting.

Thanks,
-g

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