"Bert Huijben" <b...@qqmail.nl> writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: phi...@apache.org [mailto:phi...@apache.org] >> Sent: donderdag 13 maart 2014 11:13 >> To: comm...@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: svn commit: r1577082 - >> /subversion/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/special_tests.py >> >> Author: philip >> Date: Thu Mar 13 10:12:50 2014 >> New Revision: 1577082 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1577082 >> Log: >> Add an XFAIL regression test for issue 4479, multiline svn:special truncated. >> >> * subversion/tests/cmdline/special_tests.py >> (multiline_special): New test. >> (test_list): Add new test. > > As far as I can tell we handled this limitation as 'as designed' when > implementing WC-NG. > > I don't think this is something we can really 'fix', as older clients > will just break things when they would find such a 'symlink'. > > The idea back then (ask gstein :-) was to move away from using a > single magic property for this, if we ever wanted to support more > 'special' files.
If the pristine file for an svn:special is "foo\nbar\n" we currently create a working file containing "foo". Irrespective of future changes I think it would be better if the working file contained "foo\nbar\n". Are you saying that is not a good idea? In what way will old clients break? -- Philip Martin | Subversion Committer WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*
