On 18.10.2016 09:32, Stefan wrote:
> 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.
That's a good point. Also from a user's perspective, I'd find it
extremely confusing that, having seen an svn:auto-props value containing:
*.txt = svn:eol-style=native
and then 'svn add'ing foo.txt, to find that the newly added file has,
e.g., svn:keywords set because some auto-props value higher up in the
tree happens to specify it for the '*.txt' pattern.
If we change the behaviour so that a rule for a (case-insensitive)
pattern completely overrides a hierarchically previoius rule, we can
also introduce the concept of disabling auto-props rules; e.g., just
having a
*.txt =
could mean "do nothing with files matching '*.txt' from this point
onwards." I think that would be a quite valuable addition to the
auto-props feature set.
-- Brane
