Re: Auto-prop not working?

On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Peter McNab wrote:

>
> So If at some stage I start putting keywords into text files and
> enable keyword expansion or whatever the term is, then there is a
> chance maybe a spreadsheet or text document with the same string might
> become corrupted?

Sure, if you set the svn:keywords or svn:eol-style property on a file,
you're giving svn permission to start munging the contents of the file
by looking for patterns of data to substitute. It's obviously not a
good idea to allow such a thing on a binary file.

> I currently don't distinguish between binaries and text when
> committing from the GUI, like we did in CVS.

With subversion, you can relax. It assumes all file contents are
sacred by default, and will *only* munge contents if you set those
special properties. CVS is the opposite; it assumes all files are
mungable text, and you have to explicitly tell it not to munge data (by
setting the '-kb' flags on a file.)

>
> What is the correct approach "currently" to absolutely avoid the
> potential for corruption?
>

Don't set svn:keywords or svn:eol-style on any file, ever. :-)

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Received on Fri Apr 22 20:09:17 2005