Stefan Kueng wrote:
> Another reason to store whole files: patches don't work with non-text
> files. Which is a major problem especially on Windows where files often
> are encoded in utf16.
Making 'svn diff' and 'svn patch' support non-text files is already a
dependency of shelving-by-patch-files.
At present, 'svn diff --git' supports non-text files by writing into the
patch file (and encoded into ASCII), the whole of the old file and the
whole of the new file. So that already does what you are asking: it
'stores whole files'. And 'svn patch' handles this as input. Just like
'svn merge', it chooses either one side change or the other, and if both
sides changed that is a conflict. (I haven't tested it, I assume it
works like that.)
Storing whole files will not magically make merging UTF-16 text changes
work. For that, the merge will need to be taught how to process UTF-16
text. And if we do that, then 'svn diff' and 'svn patch' could process
UTF-16 as text too. That would be a great enhancement to Subversion, but
is an orthogonal issue.
- Julian
Received on 2017-09-02 22:03:26 CEST