On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 05:50:00PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 02:02:39PM +0200, Matthias Vorwerk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > setting the svn property svn:global-ignores to the repository root (or some > > higher level directory in the repository) - it obviously does not get > > inherited > > if I only checkout and work in some lower-level directory (until > > subversion-1.8.9) . > > > > It looks like the parent directory containing the svn:global-ignores > > property > > must be present in the workspace. This seems to be in contrast to e.g. the > > svn:auto-props property which may not be present in the workspace - it > > seems to > > be looked for also on the server - which is what I expect. > > > > So the effect of the current svn:global-ignores handling is that the client > > behavior depends on the hierarchy which is checked out in the workspace. > > > > Can you reproduce this bahvior? > > > > Regards, > > Matthias > > Yes, this is a bug. > > The function filter_unwanted_props() in libsvn_wc/wc_db.c seems filters out > the cached global-ignores prop because the property names it compares are > different (one is qualified with "svn:" and the other isn't), even though > they should be the same: > > 10240 if (strcmp(ipropname, propname) != 0) > (gdb) p ipropname > $5 = 0x21281cfda20 "global-ignores" > (gdb) p propname > $6 = 0x211f750bba6 "svn:global-ignores" > > I'm not sure off-hand how to fix this. > I've filed http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4515 > > Thanks for your report.
I tried to look into this today but I cannot reproduce this bug anymore. I should have written a reproduction script. Matthias, do you have a way of reliably triggering this bug? Thanks.
