On 2009-08-05 11:33:11 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > # This is not 'data loss', it is merely mishandling keyword expansion. > severity 539991 normal
Not data loss (at least, data can be retrieved from the repository), but almost-silent data corruption, and that's very bad. This is more than mishandling keyword expansion, since once a keyword has been removed from the svn:keywords property, the text is no longer part of a keyword. For instance, one can have in a file, e.g. a script, a string of the form $Id: ... some almost-arbitrary contents ... $ and after a "svn up", such a possibly-important part of the script (which looks like keyword expansion, but certainly isn't at all) would be silently compressed to $Id$, contrary to what the user expected. However the nice point is that such a modification is detected by commands like "svn status" or "svn diff" (or "svn up" in case of conflict -- this is how I discovered this bug). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
