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Re: Some issues on svn propget (Re: svn commit: r1881985 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/merge_tests.py)

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 16:57:03 +0000

Yasuhito FUTATSUKI wrote on Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:56 +0900:
> (Sorry for reply too late.)

No worries.

> On 2020/09/26 19:12, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > 1 % svn propset svn:ignore "予定表.txt" ./
> > 2 property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'
> > 3 % svn propset foo:ignore "予定表.txt" ./
> > 4 property 'foo:ignore' set on '.'
> > 5 % LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucjp svn pl -v
> > 6 Properties on '.':
> > 7 foo:ignore
> > 8 予定表.txt
> > 9 svn:ignore
> > 10 ͽɽ.txt
> >
> > 11 % LC_ALL=C svn pg --strict svn:ignore
> > 12 {U+4E88}{U+5B9A}{U+8868}.txt
> >
> > 13 % svn propset svn:ignore "{U+4E88}.txt" ./
> > 14 property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'
> > 15 % sqlite3 .svn/wc.db .dump | me
> > 16 (svn:ignore 29 {U+4E88}{U+5B9A}{U+8868}.txt )
> > 17 % svn pg --strict svn:ignore
> > 18 {U+4E88}{U+5B9A}{U+8868}.txt
> > .
> > So, I think there are a number of different issues/gotchas here:
> >
> > - It's not possible to get the raw value of an svn:* property in
> > a working copy if the value is not representable in the local encoding.
>
> I belive that if we want to get property values precisely, we should
> use xml output, although --no-newline is enough in most case except
> this case.

Hmm, that's an interesting one. On the one hand, «propget --xml»
does resolve the ambiguity issue of the ad-hoc escaping; on the other
hand:

- We shouldn't require CLI users to use an XML parser in order to
  retrieve values of binary blobs.

- The XML document declares itself to be in UTF-8. Does that mean XML
  parsers are allowed to treat the dumped property values as UTF-8 and,
  for example, convert the byte sequence (that comprises the value) to
  another byte sequence, that's equivalent when treated as UTF-8 but
  not equivalent when treated as binary blobs? (For example, convert
  the UTF-8 to composed or decomposed normal form.)

Thanks for the (snipped) remainder; I agree.

Cheers,

Daniel
Received on 2020-10-04 18:57:23 CEST

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