[SVN-1191] svn cat (and others?) don't support "-rBASE" locally or "-rWORKING" at all

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: libsvn_client
• Labels: patch

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 14/Mar/03 17:39
• Updated: 29/Dec/12 21:45

Description

at least svn cat, possible other commands, do not look to the working copy 
property database, only to the database on the server.

Steps to 
reproduce:
1) checkout some files (if you haven't already)
2) set a 
property for cat, like svn:eol-style on a file
3) svn cat that file
- the 
property doesn't take effect.

Tracing this issue in gdb, I've checked 
out a file with no properties, then done a svn propset svn:eol-style 'native' 
[file].
Tracing svn cat [file], I find that eol_style in libsvn_client/cat.c 
always is null.

This is because the property database always gets 
fetched through DAV (or whatever transport) on svn cat.
Perhaps it 
should have a pristine check like svn propget does to determine if we should 
fetch from the working copy or the server.

Original issue reported by jamesl