Hello,
I recently had to recode some files under svn version control and I
had to go through some pains to commit the changes to the
repository...
Case in point:
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ svnadmin create repo
lukas_at_hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ svn co file:///home/lukas/playground/repo wc
Checked out revision 0.
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ echo -e '\xc3\xa9toile' > wc/testfile #
Some UTF-8 encoded text
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ file wc/testfile # Verify the encoding
wc/testfile: UTF-8 Unicode text
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ svn add wc/testfile && svn ci wc -m
'Added UTF-8 encoded test file'
A wc/testfile
Adding wc/testfile
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1.
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ recode utf8..latin1 wc/testfile # now recode it
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ file wc/testfile # Verify the encoding
wc/testfile: DOS executable (COM)
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ svn status wc # the file has changed,
but svn does not see it!
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ svn ci wc -m'Recoded testfile' # I
can't even check it in
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ svn co
file:///home/lukas/playground/repo wc2 # And if I chack it out again
A wc2/testfile
Checked out revision 1.
lukas@hp-pv2000 ~/playground $ file wc2/testfile # it still is encoded in UTF-8
wc2/testfile: UTF-8 Unicode text
Seeing how svn's diff algorithm tries to be smarter than I am is
annoying. If this is a feature, the documentation should mention it,
and provide a workaround.
regards
Lukas Reck
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Received on Sun Feb 18 19:04:32 2007