Bug#669111: subversion: globs in groups should be matched in order of their appearance

Package: subversion
Version: 1.6.12dfsg-6
Severity: wishlist

I'd like to be able to match against one particular server in our
organization which needs different client certificates than all the
others, but still have a global fallback for outside servers needing
no certificates.

The problem is that the order of matches is non-deterministic since
this monday for me (I can't see a relevant updated package, but it
used to work before).

The documentation on
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/...sect-1.3.1
states no order of evaluation, but since this is something I've relied
on in the past, I'd like to see it as a feature.

I'd like to use something like this

,-[ servers ]
[groups]
special = special.our-org.de
ourorg = *.our-org.de

[special]
ssl-authority-files = /home/fdf/secret/SPECIALCA.p12 # bogus self-signed CA
ssl-client-cert-file = /home/fdf/secret/special-cert.p12
ssl-client-cert-password = VerySecret

[ourorg]
ssl-client-cert-file = /home/fdf/secret/ourorg-cert.p12
ssl-client-cert-password = MoreSecret

[global]
`-


With the following file I can reproduce that glob matches are indeed
nondeterministic:

,-[ ~/dot-subversion-debian-bug/servers ]
[groups]
apache = svn.apache.org
outside = *

[apache]
neon-debug-mask = 0

[global]
neon-debug-mask = 511
`-

via:

svn ls --config-dir=~/dot-subversion-debian-bug http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sub...subversion 2>&1|wc -l

this will sometimes yield 32 lines (no debug output from neon) and
sometimes 2231 (lots of neon output) (Might need a couple of tries.)

So svn.apache.org sometimes matches the 'apache' group and sometimes
the 'outside' group.

while true; do svn ls --non-interactive https://special.our-org.de/repositories/our-org >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo -n $?; done

with my "real" config above will yield a random string of 0s and 1s.

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (50, 'karmic'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-1.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii libapr1 1.4.6-1
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.25.dfsg1-4
ii libsvn1 1.6.12dfsg-6

subversion recommends no packages.

Versions of packages subversion suggests:
ii db4.8-util <none>
ii patch 2.6.1-3
ii subversion-tools 1.6.17dfsg-3


Friedrich Delgado <friedel@nomaden.org>
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