Re: svn commit: r1570936 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_client/blame.c

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:

> I think your patch doesn't change the behavior (this is more a brain
> dump based on te earlier related mail thread), but there are property
> changes that do change how we interpret the content of a file... E.g. some
> changes to svn:eol-style and svn:keywords.
>
> In these cases the actual file may change while the repository form didn't.
>
> Blame, especially with whitespace ignores might not be interested in these
> cases, but there are api users that use the file revs api that are
> interested.
>

Well, my patch does not fix the fundamental shortcomings
of blame nor do I intend to address them any time soon.

I simply wanted to remove the behavioral dependency on
FS implementation details. That's what this patch does and
tests pass with FSX again.

-- Stefan^2.
Received on 2014-02-23 22:25:52 CET