Branko Čibej wrote on Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:06:32 +0200:
> 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.
>
I can easily imagine other scenarios in which the overlaying behaviour
is not confusing, but expected; for example:
% svn propset svn:auto-props '*.txt = svn:mime=type=text/plain;;charset=UTF-8'
Documentation # sic
% svn propset svn:auto-props '*.txt = svn:eol-style=LF'
Documentation/unix
% svn propset svn:auto-props '*.txt = svn:eol-style=CRLF'
Documentation/windows
The output of 'svn help ps' may propagate this expectation, too:
.
svn:auto-props -
⋮
Applies recursively to all files added or imported under the directory
it is set on.
.
(The term "recursively" is not qualified or restricted.)
> 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.
This is a very compelling argument :-) However, I note that it, too, is
backwards incompatible.
I was thinking of inventing new syntaxes, «*.txt := PROPHASH» for
override (as you suggest) and «*.txt += PROPHASH» for overlay (as now).
Released libsvn's interpret these syntaxes as the shell pattern "files
whose name ends with the 6-character substring '.txt +'".
Cheers,
Daniel
