Bug#356900: subversion: removing property svn:keywords leaves an expanded keyword in the WC

Peter Samuelson peter at p12n.org
Wed Mar 15 00:16:02 UTC 2006


[Christof Douma]
> Without this touch svn does not record any changes, which should not
> happen. A quick fix would be to touch all WC files which have
> svn:keywords changed/removed.

This fix, effectively, seems to be in 1.3.0, which is now in unstable.
'svn status' / 'svn diff' notice that the file has changed.

> A better fix would be to undo the expansion of the keywords:

Agreed, but with reservations - some users may expect the visible
(expanded) text to remain.  For one thing, there's no evidence that
$Id$ is the correct "original" text - it could have been something like
$Id: total random garbage $ instead, in which case restoring the text
to $Id$ does not really help.  And yes, that's a bit contrived.

I'll forward this to the upstream developers for consideration.  I
don't want to make Debian subversion incompatible with upstream over
something like this.

> I hope I made the bug clear.

Yes, very clear, thank you!
Peter





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