Re: auto-props syntax in file vs. property

Re-awakening my previous thread about the auto-properties. I get really confused by where to use ;; and ; as a separator.

I currently have this in the auto-props on the repo:
*.txt = svn:mime-type=text/plain;;charset=iso-8859-1;svn:eol-style=LF

And then if I add a text file:
prompt> touch foo.txt; svn add foo.txt; svn pg svn:mime-type foo.txt
A foo.txt
text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1

So the property itself is with just one semicolon in there despite the auto-prop having ;;
Is this the correct behavior?

While if I to the same thing manually, i.e.

prompt> touch foo; svn add foo; svn propset svn:mime-type "text/plain;;charset=iso-8859-1" foo; svn pg svn:mime-type foo
A foo
property 'svn:mime-type' set on 'foo'
text/plain;;charset=iso-8859-1

That is, I'm passing in the exact string that I have in my auto-props into propset for a file without .txt-suffix so I don't get the auto-properties. But as you see in the resulting property that I now have has double semi-colons.

My guess is that the former is the intended behavior and I should not be passing in the ";;" into the manual command, but I'm getting really confused here. I seems very error-prone that manual propset can't use the strings from the config file or auto-props wihtout getting a different result.

Which version is the correct one, or do both actually do the job?

BR
  Chris

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On Wed, 1/10/18, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:

 Subject: Re: auto-props syntax in file vs. property
 To: "Chris" <devnullaccount_at_yahoo.se>, users_at_subversion.apache.org
 Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 8:51 PM
 
 Chris wrote on Wed, 10 Jan 2018
 08:26 +0000:
> I think the fix to
 svn_apply_autoprops.py should be something like below
>
 (/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn_apply_autoprops.py)
> If anyone with commit rights wants to fix
 it on the repo, feel free to
> use the
 below, or improve it as necessary (my python knowledge is
 non-
> existing)
>
> Index: svn_apply_autoprops.py
>
 ===================================================================
> --- svn_apply_autoprops.py     
 (revision 103617)
> +++
 svn_apply_autoprops.py      (revision 103618)
> @@ -101,7 +101,11 @@
>      # leading and trailing whitespce
 from the propery names and
>      #
 values.
>      props_list = []
> -    for prop in
 props.split(';'):
> +    #
 Since ;; is a separator within one property, we need to
 do
> +    # regex and use both negative
 lookahead and lookbehind to avoid
> + 
   # ever matching a more than one semicolon in the split
> +    semicolonpattern =
 re.compile("(?<!;);(?!;)")
>
 +    for prop in re.split(semicolonpattern, props):
 
 That's clever, but it will
 misparse sequences of three or more semicolons in a row,
 such as
 
 *.foo =
 key=val;;with;;semicolons;;;anotherkey=anotherval
 
 Daniel
 
Received on 2018-02-22 13:52:33 CET