On 10/17/2016 15:37, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 17.10.2016 14:12, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:18:35 +0200: >>> Omitting the '=' also doesn't cut it: >>> >>> [[[ >>> C:\autoprops\wc\trunk\dir>svn pg svn:auto-props --show-inherited-props >>> C:\autoprops\wc - *.txt = svn:eol-style=native >>> >>> C:\autoprops\wc\trunk - *.txt = >>> svn:eol-style;svn:mime-type=application/octet-stream >>> >>> C:\autoprops\wc\trunk\dir>svn add test.txt >>> svn: E135001: Unrecognized line ending style '' for >>> 'C:\autoprops\wc\trunk\dir\test.txt' >>> ]]] >> Quoting ~/.subversion/config: >> >> [auto-props] >> ### The format of the entries is: >> ### file-name-pattern = propname[=value][;propname[=value]...] >> >> So the «=value» part is allowed to be omitted entirely, but what are the >> semantics of that? They don't seem to be documented. >> >> It seems to me that we can *define* that if the = sign is absent, then >> the value of the property will be not "" but NULL. > Unfortunately the implementation > (libsvn_client/add.c:all_auto_props_collector()) already explicitly > handles 'propname' as if it were 'propname=', i.e., sets the value to > "". Since the "documentation" in the generated config file already > implies that the '=' can be absend, I'd say this behaviour is pretty > much set in stone. > > > -- Brane
From a user's point of view I'm also not sure whether a syntax of *.foo = k1 would be intuitive to read as if that's unsetting the property... Personally I wouldn't get that behavior tbh, without reading the documentation. Regards, Stefan
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