Hello,
As Ben pointed out, the current parser in the script for svnlook <= 1.7.x is broken and unfixable for multiline properties. The closest we can get to DTRT in this case is to have svnlook output XML. Hopefully no one still cares about svnlook <= 1.3 (?) that cannot output XML.
Regards,
Leo
On Mar 2, 2014, at 8:11 AM, "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Ben Reser wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 19:07:37 -0800:
>> On 2/25/14, 4:21 PM, Leo Davis wrote:
>>> I recently discovered that the old 'check-mime-type.pl' contrib script is I
>>> had installed on my server was broken when using subversion 1.8.5. I looked
>>> for an updated script in the 1.8.5 branch and in trunk and discovered the
>>> script was also broken in those places as well. After some digging, I found
>>> out when this change happened and patched the script. I suspect (but don't
>>> know for sure) that this only affects subversion 1.8.x.
>>>
>>> This patch is from trunk.
>>>
>>> [[[
>>> Fix check-mime-type.pl for output changes to 'svnlook proplist'.
>>>
>>> The output format of 'svnlook proplist' was changed in revision 1416637.
>>>
>>> See also http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-11/0510.shtml
>>>
>>> * contrib/hook-scripts/check-mime-type.pl: Fix reading process output from
>>> 'svnlook proplist'.
>>> ]]]
>>
>> First of all thanks for your contribution. You're quite right that this is
>> broken for 1.8.x and trunk.
>>
>> Unfortunately, your patch isn't quite right either.
>>
>> [description of parsing problems]
>
> One more issue: however you change the parser, it will break if
> svnlook1.7 or older is used. It would be nice to DTRT in that case
> (either error out or retain the old parser).
Received on 2014-03-03 02:34:56 CET