On 6/13/06, Kelley T-Freytag <kfreytag@fnal.gov> wrote:
> I am trying to automatically set a svn property on a file
> called scu.exe. I want the property set regardless of
> the case of the file name, e.g both scu.exe and SCU.EXE.
> Putting scu.exe in the config file catches the lower case only.
> Putting something like [Ss][Cc][Uu].[Ee][Xx][Ee] doesn't work
> at all. If I have both :
>
> scu.exe : svn:executable
> SCU.EXE : svn:executable
>
> in the config file, it will only attach the property on
> the first definition it comes across: in other words, for
> the example above filenames in lowercase are set but upper
> case are not; and if you switch the order (put the upper
> case first in the file) then it attaches the property only
> on the upper case file.
>
> Obviously, from the documentation, the * regular expression
> wild-card works. What other regular expressions work? Why
> doesn't 2 different names work?
>
> Using svn: 1.2.1 on Linux,
> 1.3 on Windows
> and am seeing the same behavior on both.
Due to the way the Subversion config file parser works you can't have
two autoprops that differ only in case. I agree this is kind of
insane, but we can't change it for backwards compatibility reasons.
There's an issue about it someplace...
-garrett
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Received on Tue Jun 13 20:41:46 2006