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Re: TSVN 1.8 issue with keywords on binaries

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:32:53 +0100

On 11 July 2013 09:19, Lorenzo <l.fraccaro_at_autecsafety.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> We're running Tortoise SVN on 3 machines with a single repository on a Windows 2000 server with Apache Subversion 1.5.4.
> I find no previous complaint about following problem in the mailing list.
>
> This is the sequence that caused the problem:
>
> 1) updated TortoiseSVN to revision 1.8
> 2) TSVN requested updating working copies
> 3) confirmed update of working copies to 1.8
> 4) changed some source files
> 5) built executable (Windows 32 bit application)
> 6) committed changes, including executable file
> 7) launched executable
> 8) Windows complains that "file is not excecutable"
>
> All committed files have one or more svn:keywords active at the project level, therefore also executable files.
> Comparing executable file with latest revision, all '$' characters have been replaced by the sequence "$: ".
> This disrupted the executable file.
> I remembered that svn:keywords substitution should not affect binary files, and I can confirm that the executable file is seen by Tortoise as such.
>
> Is this a bug of Tortoise 1.8 or am I missing something ?

Why do you set svn:keywords on an executable file if you don't want
keyword substitution?
Why do you even version an executable file?

Simon

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