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Re: git-svn and renames

From
RDRogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date
Jul 12, 2007, 16:51 UTC
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<46965BFD.5080702@dawes.za.net>
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<20070712090635.GA18155@mayonaise>
Eric Wong wrote:
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>> I've personally noted a rename issue with committing funky characters
>> "#{}" in filenames (I was renaming to get rid of those funky characters of
>> course).   Haven't had proper time to look into it.
>>
>> Did any previous successful commits have renames in them?  You may want
>> to set similarity to 100% to disable rename detection.
> 
> SVN over HTTP is most definitely behaves differently from svn:// and
> file:// wrt strange file names.  I'll see if I can work on this again in
> day or two, or if anybody wants to pick up where I left off, my
> work-in-progress test case is below (it's currently failing, of course).
> 
> I'll have to look into how (if) svk handles it and also at the svn
> command-line client.  I'm fairly sure the command-line svn client
> handles it somehow...
> 
> Right now I'm getting sleepy, my vision is blurring and I'm seeing
> "SVN" as "S/M" through my tired eyes...
> 
Hi Eric,

This doesn't seem to be my problem. In my case, the filenames are quite simple and straightforward.

Thanks
Rogan
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Message 8 of 10 in “git-svn and renames”
  1. Rogan DawesJul 10, 2007
  2. David KastrupJul 10, 2007
  3. Rogan DawesJul 10, 2007
  4. Florian WeimerJul 10, 2007
  5. Rogan DawesJul 10, 2007
  6. Eric WongJul 11, 2007
  7. Eric WongJul 12, 2007
  8. Rogan DawesJul 12, 2007
  9. git-svn: fix commiting renames over DAV with funky file namesEric Wong, Jul 16, 2007
  10. Rogan DawesJul 16, 2007

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