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Re: problem of setting auto-props

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-04-13 00:00:19 CEST

On 4/12/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
> On 4/12/06, Stan J <thinkernel@yeah.net> wrote:
> > I'm using subversion 1.3.0 under freebsd 4.11
> > I set my config file like below.
> > =========================
> > [miscellany]
> > enable-auto-props = yes
> >
> > [auto-props]
> > *.xls = svn:needs-lock=true
> > *.XLS = svn:needs-lock=true
> > =========================
> >
> > I'm expect that this will set needs-lock property when I add both
> > *.xls and *.XLS files.
> > The fact is like below
> > =========================
> > ~/work/test> echo aaa > aaa.xls
> > ~/work/test> echo BBB > BBB.XLS
> > ~/work/test> ll *
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 0037 users 4 Apr 12 21:14 BBB.XLS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 0037 users 4 Apr 12 21:14 aaa.xls
> > ~/work/test> svn add *
> > A BBB.XLS
> > A aaa.xls
> > ~/work/test> svn ci * -m "test"
> > Adding BBB.XLS
> > Adding aaa.xls
> > Transmitting file data ..
> > Committed revision 1.
> > ~/work/test> ll *
> > -r--r--r-- 1 0037 users 4 Apr 12 21:14 BBB.XLS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 0037 users 4 Apr 12 21:14 aaa.xls
> > =======================================
> >
> > *.XLS is readonly but aaa.xls is still writeable.
> > Did i do anything wrong?
>
> Weird. I can see the same problem here, looks like svn:needs-lock
> never gets set for one of the two files. Will look into it further...

Apparently the problem is due to an idiosyncracy of the config file
parsing in Subversion, one that's been there for quite some time. The
'key' portion of the lines, where the *.xls part occurs, is
specifically downcased before being entered into the internal hash
table, so you can't have two entries with keys that differ only in
case. I'm not sure why it's done this way, or if there's any way we
can avoid it at the moment. Seems pretty weird to me though.

-garrett

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