Create/Apply Patch - UTF-16 and binary support

Hi,

I’m requesting that someone fix the Create/Apply patch functionality of
Subversion. Having spoken to Stefan Küng of TortoiseSVN fame, he mentioned
that there are a few problems with the create /apply patch that need fixing
on the Subversion side before we can do anything on the TortoiseSVN side.
Two specific things come to mind:

-UTF-16 support.

-Binary format file.

The use case is as follows:

I have some uncommitted changes in my working copy – an added .png binary
file, and a modified UTF-16 encoded windows resource-script file (.rc). I
want to send changes to a friend for review before committing them to the
repo. My friend should just receive the .patch file and be able to apply
the patch to get to the same Working copy as is on my system. Right now, I
have to think about binary and UTF-16 encoded files, and put those in a zip
file.

Stefan told me that someone had implemented such functionality in the past -
that it did not end up getting used because the diff clients needed
changing.

I’m kind of surprised/disappointed that a reliable patch mechanism does not
seem to exist for svn. When I do a commit, the changes are bunched up in
some binary format and sent to the server. Can we not capture this kind of
data in some text-encoded format, and have the patch program understand the
format?

Below are some archived posts about Create/Apply Patch

http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2011-05/0012.shtml

http://svn.haxx.se/tsvn/archive-2009-04/0197.shtml

Best regards,

Friedrich Brunzema

 
Received on 2013-05-22 19:31:53 CEST