Re: Document svn:auto-props on 'svn help propset'

Bert Huijben wrote:
> Would something like
> [[
> Index: subversion/svn/svn.c
> ===================================================================
[...]
>    "    svn:global-ignores - Like svn:ignore, but inheritable.\n"
> +  "    svn:auto-props     - A list of file patterns with properties to apply on\n"
> +  "      new files. Multiple properties are separated with a simicolon, a doubled\n"
> +  "      semicolon is handled litteral.\n"

Spelling: "semicolon", "literal".

I suggest a tweak to the wording:

  "    svn:auto-props     - A list of file patterns with properties to apply on\n"
  "      new files. Separate multiple properties with a semicolon; to insert a\n"
  "      literal semicolon, double it.\n"

> +  "      Example:\n"
> +  "        *.c=svn:eol-style=native\n"
> +  "        *.html=svn:eol-style=native;svn:mime-type=text/html\n"
>    "    svn:externals      - A list of module specifiers, one per line, in the\n"
[...]
> ]]
> be useful?
>
> We document almost all the other properties processed by 'svn' there.

+1. For now, this is the place where we document the special props. The other prop commands refer to this one.

(I was recently thinking it would be nice to move the description of special props to its own help command, "svn help properties" for example, but that's another topic.)

> (I don't see svn:mime-type)

It's there, in the "properties on a file" subsection higher up.

- Julian
Received on 2015-02-14 12:58:59 CET