I see, there are more urgent tasks. It then the different behaviour somewhere 
described? I use SVN book when I need it and I can't find anything there. Like 
many developers, I work on different operating systems and it would be good if 
e.g. SVN Book has a chapter  or note on "OS specifics" that explains that the 
command like

svn propset svn:executable "*" bootstrap.sh

produces different results depending on OS.

Jože

From: Bert Huijben [mailto:b...@qqmail.nl]
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:29 PM
To: Jože Fabčič; dev@subversion.apache.org
Subject: RE: bug? svn.exe propset svn:executable "*" affects too may files on 
Windows

                Hi Jože,

I know it can be worked around... I described that before. (And even disabled 
this feature on a few processes that don't handle filenames, but still had this 
feature enabled)

We try not to add too much Windows specific code to Subversion. (And only C; 
not C++)
Our commandline handling is borrowed from APR, which provides our platform 
abstraction.

I don't know if there is an issue number for this... but as long as the general 
consensus is that this shouldn't be implemented Windows specifically an issue 
number doesn't help at all. Adding an issue is just a reminder for issues; the 
way we use the issue tracker for Subversion.


Implementing this 'smart' for each and every commandline option certainly won't 
be easy... (Every subcommand has different rules for their arguments, sometimes 
even mixing urls and local paths)

                Bert

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