Brane, Stefan, Daniel, Nathan:
Thank you for the discussion - it filled in history that I could not find.
I understand the issues now. Cheers!
Happy Holidays!
Doug
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 9:42 AM Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:
> On 17.12.2019 14:58, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 08:33:09AM -0500, Doug Robinson wrote:
> >>> And of course, both the
> >>> filename and the label (= the part after the tab character) may
> contain an
> >>> arbitrary number of spaces.
> >> The problem is parsing the line into proper tokens when every character
> out
> >> there can be part of the file name. There must be a structure to the
> field
> >> or parsing is not really parsing anymore.
> > The output of 'svn diff' was not designed with 'svn patch' in mind.
> > The diff command preceded the patch command by many years.
> >
> > I still believe that making --patch-compatible produce filenames without
> > any trailing annotations in the output of 'svn diff' is the best answer.
>
>
> Agreed. Plain-vanilla BSD patch should be able to apply such patches, as
> should 'svn patch'.
>
>
> > This whole discussion started off with the problem statement that the
> > --patch-compatible option produces a diff which cannot be applied after
> > tabs are replaced with spaces.
> >
> > This filename parsing problem isn't limited to 'svn patch'. Other patch
> > implementations might run into the same problem. The way 'svn patch'
> finds
> > the filename is based on Larry Wall's original patch program.
>
> Precisely. That TAB *is* the canonical delimiter. The (implicit)
> specification is decades old, and it would be an error to try to
> second-guess it at this point.
>
> Designing a stricter universal format for transmitting contextual
> changes is a different matter entirely, one that we tried to tackle in
> the past and failed; other version control systems tried and failed,
> too. It would be a nice thing to have, but it's hardly something this
> community can do in isolation.
>
> > Generally, patches being mangled in transit is a notorious problem
> especially
> > with web-based email. It's not really a safe format for this purpose. If
> patches
> > get changed in transit in any way there is no guarantee they will apply
> cleanly.
> > That's not a new problem, it's a long-standing issue. And it's not
> SVN-specific.
> > There is already a way to transfer changes without such problems: svn
> commit
>
> And note that the tabs-to-spaces headache doesn't stop with parsing the
> filename out of the header, it affects the filename itself. I can put
> tabs in a filename on most Unix filesystems ... that would probably
> break even the original patch tool.
>
> -- Brane
>
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