[SVN-2509] svn blame should take a --force option, just like svn diff

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.x
• Fix Version/s: 1.4-consider
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Labels: bite-sized
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 23/Feb/06 18:47
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:33
• Resolved: 24/Feb/06 20:38

Description

Key points:
 * svn blame should take a --force
 * "can't hurt"
 * This would make the file be treated as text, no matter what svn has inferred
from the mime-type property


[13:35:12] <shruggar> anyone else agree that 'svn blame' should take a --force
the way 'svn diff' does? (to force the proccessing of files svn thinks are "binary")
[13:35:24] * Yorick agrees
[13:35:49] <offby1> the channel agrees with The Book, always.  We do not doubt
The Book's wisdom.
[13:35:50] <IcePic> given 15 secs of thought, I'd say: "Can't hurt"
[13:36:02] <offby1> gack!
[13:36:06] <offby1> how would it display its output?
[13:36:15] <offby1> the whole point of "svn blame" it to annotate _lines_
[13:36:21] <offby1> binary files, by definition, don't have "lines".
[13:36:24] <Yorick> shruggar: Now, if you could teach svn about merges and get
blame to understand that, I would agree wholeheartedly
[13:36:25] <offby1> so what would the output look like?
[13:36:51] <Yorick> offby1: just like text. --force means "this is text, I promise."
[13:37:02] <Yorick> Just like it does for diff.
[13:37:03] <shruggar> what he said
[13:37:14] <Yorick> If the user lies, he will get what he deserves.
[13:37:19] <offby1> ah

Original issue reported by vstarre