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Re: svn:auto-props: property specified in a parent dir but not specified in a subdir

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:37:14 +0200

On 17.10.2016 14:12, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:18:35 +0200:
>> Omitting the '=' also doesn't cut it:
>>
>> [[[
>> C:\autoprops\wc\trunk\dir>svn pg svn:auto-props --show-inherited-props
>> C:\autoprops\wc - *.txt = svn:eol-style=native
>>
>> C:\autoprops\wc\trunk - *.txt =
>> svn:eol-style;svn:mime-type=application/octet-stream
>>
>> C:\autoprops\wc\trunk\dir>svn add test.txt
>> svn: E135001: Unrecognized line ending style '' for
>> 'C:\autoprops\wc\trunk\dir\test.txt'
>> ]]]
> Quoting ~/.subversion/config:
>
> [auto-props]
> ### The format of the entries is:
> ### file-name-pattern = propname[=value][;propname[=value]...]
>
> So the «=value» part is allowed to be omitted entirely, but what are the
> semantics of that? They don't seem to be documented.
>
> It seems to me that we can *define* that if the = sign is absent, then
> the value of the property will be not "" but NULL.

Unfortunately the implementation
(libsvn_client/add.c:all_auto_props_collector()) already explicitly
handles 'propname' as if it were 'propname=', i.e., sets the value to
"". Since the "documentation" in the generated config file already
implies that the '=' can be absend, I'd say this behaviour is pretty
much set in stone.

-- Brane
Received on 2016-10-17 15:37:26 CEST

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