Philip Martin wrote on Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:07 +0100:
> Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> writes:
>
> >> The workaround is to use:
> >>
> >> echo -ne "ignorethis\n" | svn ps svn:ignore -F - .
> >
> > By the way, an even simpler workaround in this case is
> >
> > svn ps svn:ignore -m $'ignorethis\n' ./
>
> No. In this case -F specifies the property value, not the log message.
>
Ah, my bad. In that case, just drop the -m:
svn ps svn:ignore $'line1\nline2\nline3\n' ./
This also shows one way to propset a multiline value.
> Something like this may work:
>
> svn ps svn:ignore $(echo -ne "ignorethis\n") .
>
> but quoting multiple line values can be tricky.
This should work:
svn ps svn:ignore "$(printf '%s\n' 'line1' 'line2' 'line3' ...)"
(up to trailing newlines)
Cheers,
Daniel
