On 4 October 2015 at 13:32, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 12:52:33PM +0200, Edward d'Auvergne wrote: >> I would maybe suggest introducing an option for disabling the entire >> automatic property subsystem, i.e. it combines both of these, and >> overrides them. This is an interesting thought experiment - devise >> any name for such a top level automatic property override - and this >> should convincingly demonstrate the confusion that the current setting >> names induces. > > I think that would just make the situation worse by adding to > the current mess. > > I agree the documentation needs to be improved. Would you have time > to update the documentation and send patches for it?
Ok, I can look into it. Hpwever the instructions for setting the MAGIC environmental variable needs some discussion (see below). >> The problem with the svn:mime-type block is that for svn clients < >> 1.9, 'svn import' can never work. Specifically because the libmagic >> layer overwrites any user decision to disable automatic properties. > > There's another trick to disable libmagic which works with all > client versions. I just tested it with 1.8. > > Set the MAGIC environment variable to a file which does not exist. > > env MAGIC=/nonexistent svn import ... > > This effectively disabled libmagic support. I've tried all combinations and nothing works (on my Linux system with svn 1.8.14). For example: $ env MAGIC=/nonexistent svn import ... $ MAGIC=/nonexistent svn import ... [block] $ env MAGIC=False svn import ... $ MAGIC=False svn import ... [block] $ export MAGIC=/nonexistent $ svn import ... [block] $ export MAGIC=False $ svn import ... [block] $ touch empty_magic $ MAGIC=$BASE_DIR/empty_magic svn import ... [block] $ env MAGIC=$BASE_DIR/empty_magic svn import ... [block] $ head -n 1 /usr/share/mime/magic > empty_magic $ MAGIC=$BASE_DIR/empty_magic svn import ... [block] Not a single one of these combinations work - svn:mime-type is always being set by 'svn import'. Therefore blocking svn:mime-type in a pre-commit hook completely kills the option of using 'svn import', and there is no way to avoid this. Looking more carefully at what is happening: $ cd $BASE_DIR $ cp dash/Images/DashBoot_logo_Mod.png test4 $ cp dash/dash-set.xml test4 $ cd test4 $ svn add DashBoot_logo_Mod.png $ svn add dash-set.xml $ svn plist -R Properties on 'DashBoot_logo_Mod.png': svn:mime-type $ svn pget svn:mime-type DashBoot_logo_Mod.png application/octet-stream So setting MAGIC is having an effect, but Subversion is falling back, probably via a non-magic internal code path, to the default svn:mime-type of "application/octet-stream" for PNG and some other files. The MAGIC env variable prevents the XML files from not having svn:mime-type set, but other files are still being set. Hence 'svn import' is blocked, and there is zero way to avoid the setting of svn:mime-type. Because of this behaviour, I'm willing to bet that svn 1.9 will also suffer from the inability to disable the automatic property setting of svn:mime-type (for some reason I can't do this on a self compiled but not installed svn trunk version, as it is using the wrong svnlook version and setting SVNLOOK doesn't seem to help). Regards, Edward P. S. Again, as always, here are some detailed instructions to allow for a 100% reproducibility of all these tests by anyone interested: Set up: $ export BASE_DIR="/flightgear/repo_testing/mimetype/" $ export BACKUP_DIR="/flightgear/backup/" Initialise a new svn repository: $ cd $BASE_DIR $ svnadmin create test4.svn $ svn co file://$BASE_DIR/test4.svn/ test4 Checked out revision 0. Copy scripts from FGAddon backup: $ rsync -av svn.code.sf.net::p/flightgear/fgaddon/hooks $BACKUP_DIR $ cd $BACKUP_DIR $ cd fgaddon/hooks/ $ cp -vp pre-commit fgaddon-svn-* $BASE_DIR/test4.svn/hooks/ Download the DaSH aircraft from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-4Q5DonNb8yTi1Cd1J5Um1xMTg/view to $BASE_DIR. Testing 'svn import': $ cd $BASE_DIR $ tar xvf dash_v1.tar dash/ dash/avlModel/ dash/dash-fdm.xml dash/dash-set.xml dash/Engines/ [snip] $ head -n 1 /usr/share/mime/magic > empty_magic $ export MAGIC=$BASE_DIR/empty_magic $ MAGIC=$BASE_DIR/empty_magic svn import dash file://$BASE_DIR/test4.svn/DaSH_svn_import/ -m "Initial import of the DaSH human powered aircraft.\n\nFor details see the forum thread at http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24495 ." Adding (bin) dash/._thumbnail.jpg Adding dash/Engines Adding dash/Engines/dash-engine.xml Adding dash/Engines/dash-prop.xml Adding dash/Images Adding (bin) dash/Images/._DashBoot_logo_Mod.png Adding (bin) dash/Images/._dash-3view.png Adding (bin) dash/Images/DashBoot_logo_Mod.png Adding (bin) dash/Images/dash-3view.png Adding dash/Models Adding (bin) dash/Models/._SLE_21b.ac Adding (bin) dash/Models/._dash-model.xml Adding dash/Models/SLE_21b.ac Adding dash/Models/dash-model.xml Adding dash/avlModel Adding (bin) dash/avlModel/._dae11.dat Adding (bin) dash/avlModel/._dash.avl Adding (bin) dash/avlModel/._plot.pdf Adding (bin) dash/avlModel/._plot.ps Adding dash/avlModel/dae11.dat Adding dash/avlModel/dash.avl Adding dash/avlModel/dash_stability.txt Adding (bin) dash/avlModel/plot.pdf Adding dash/avlModel/plot.ps Adding dash/dash-fdm.xml Adding dash/dash-set.xml Adding (bin) dash/thumbnail.jpg svn: E165001: Commit blocked by pre-commit hook (exit code 1) with output: The svn:mime-type property is set on the files ['DaSH_svn_import/._thumbnail.jpg', 'DaSH_svn_import/Images/._DashBoot_logo_Mod.png', 'DaSH_svn_import/Images /._dash-3view.png', 'DaSH_svn_import/Images/DashBoot_logo_Mod.png', 'DaSH_svn_import/Images/dash-3view.png', 'DaSH_svn_import/Models/._SLE_21b.ac', 'DaSH_svn_import/Models/._dash-model.xml', 'DaSH_svn_import/avlModel/._dae11.dat', 'DaSH_svn_import/avlModel/._dash.avl', 'DaSH_svn_import/avlModel/._plot.pdf', 'DaSH_svn_import/avlModel/._plot.ps', 'DaSH_svn_import/avlModel/plot.pdf', 'DaSH_svn_import/thumbnail.jpg'], aborting the commit. The current policy is that the svn:mime-type property is to be avoided in FGAddon. Before committing, please remove this property by typing 'svn propdel svn:mime-type file_name' for all affected files. Or to remove it recursively from all files to be committed, in your aircraft directory type 'svn propdel svn:mime-type -R'. To avoid the svn:mime-type property being set by your subversion client, the subversion configuration should be edited and all [auto-props] entries commented out. In addition the setting "enable-auto-props = yes" should be deleted from all subversion config files (in certain svn clients, this will use libmagic to determine the mime-type and set this for all new files). This includes the user configuration file at $HOME/.subversion/config or, if this is not present, the global configuration file at /etc/subversion/config in GNU/Linux and Mac OS X or %appdata%\subversion\config and %appdata%\roaming\subversion\config in MS Windows. Test 2: $ cd $BASE_DIR $ cp dash/dash-set.xml test4 $ cd test4 $ svn add dash-set.xml $ svn plist -R Properties on 'dash-set.xml': svn:mime-type $ svn pget svn:mime-type dash-set.xml application/octet-stream $