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(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) --------------------------------------- Received: (at 301989-forwarded) by bugs.debian.org; 10 Jun 2005 00:15:15 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 09 17:15:15 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from pcp05454496pcs.sandia01.nm.comcast.net (balefire.icecavern.net) [68.35.95.14] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1DgXB5-0000ov-00; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:15:15 -0700 Received: from tonberry.icecavern.net (tonberry.icecavern.net [10.0.0.9]) by balefire.icecavern.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 109891C562; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:16:38 -0600 (MDT) From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: icecavern.net To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BUG(?): "svn diff" behaves incorrectly on symbolic links pointing to binary files Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:14:57 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 X-Face: .95z#+;{S%n[}|Y(W7B+OR^vl>goBDBo2]tw9U%eF-a<=?utf-8?q?lYe6W=2E=60Pb=23K=5FRs/=254N/N=3F=5DPjL-=0A=0970vdgeA?=<@qZeK`2mR.a"{|jx"(.06^*zDnlB+_mWzeViNwjY(=?utf-8?q?/!9=7D*e=3BFqS!mI4G=25=5BHoi=26=0A=09!D=7E?=<I-;+(31((?L$Z=!W1HWJ#EkH<)sLq61)iC6|O~xq/c:n*FoixOAw=I,fidJYR::<=?utf-8?q?61=0A=09Q9=2E=7B=5CpYZeYV+jnOeh?= Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17480001.5VN6Hs1rix"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Level: --nextPart17480001.5VN6Hs1rix Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi again, Again a quick intro: I'm a Debian developer who is helping out with the=20 subversion packages. This bug was reported recently, and I thought I'd=20 forward it here for your thoughts: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do a "svn diff" in a directory where a symbolic link has been > added, Subversion does a diff on this link, even when the file pointed > to is a binary file. The consequence is that these binary data are > sent to the terminal (in my case, xterm). This had two very bad side > effects: >=20 > 1) The terminal was trashed (I had to do a "reset"). >=20 > 2) A part of the data was sent to the printer! I suppose that some > escape sequence was interpreted as a request for printing. > > Note: I posted a message about this problem to the Subversion dev > mailing-list on 25 Mar 2005, but I haven't got any reply yet. (Well, sorry if it's a repeat--I'm subscribed to this list, but I don't=20 remember any discussion about this issue.) =2D-=20 Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 --nextPart17480001.5VN6Hs1rix Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCqNuB8KmKTEzW49IRAimCAJ96L24IgFZml0Inbwiyc4HynIDHLgCghl8l 6hKgg8yHEoSHewgPO3B032c= =QceD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17480001.5VN6Hs1rix-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]