When should working value of svn:keywords apply?

Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> writes:

> vijayaguru <vijay_at_collab.net> writes:
>
>> In 1.5.x & 1.6.x, the keyword is expanded for the first update and
>> timestamp is changed for further updates. Here We are just locking the
>> file with keywords property set and we are not committing the file.Then
>> running "svn update" should expand the keyword & change the timestamp?
>>
>> But in 1.4.x , the keyword will not expand and timestamp won't
>> change for first update.
>
> It's a change in behaviour but is it a bug? Why should the keyword
> remain unexpanded?

From http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3471

Take a plain versioned file and add a keyword:

 $ echo '$Id' >> wc/f
 $ svn ps svn:keywords id wc/f
 $ svn up wc

should update expand the keyword? It doesn't at present, but if I
lock the file then the expansion happens.

Obviously it's a bug that lock makes a difference. But which is the
correct behaviour? To ignore the local property setting or to expand
the keyword?

What about svn:eol-style? If I do both

 $ svn ps svn:keywords id wc/f
 $ svn ps svn:keywords CRLF wc/f

then update changes the line-endings when the file is locked (even if
the '$Id$' token is not present in the file) but does not change the
line-endings if the file is not locked. In this case svn:eol-style
only has an effect if svn:keywords is also set.

-- 
Philip