RE: Feature request: change the way you set TSVN bugtraq: properties

Andy wrote (thanks Andy):

> What if your common root was a non-recursive checkout (only get that
> one directory), then update the needed directories as needed (again,
> always working non-recusrive on that common root)?

The non-recursive checkouts were fairly buggy in the beginning when we
started several years ago. And even if it works perfectly now, it would be
pretty clumsy and cumbersome to have to check out a tree by using
non-recursive checkouts. Finally, I don't know what would happen trying to
commit such a tree, but I don't think it would work.

> Would a pre-commit hook script, rejecting commits that don't meet your
> buqtraq property requirements, work?

Sure, it could check for it, but it's the more than 300+ existing products
for which I would like to establish the linkage. The bug numbers are
already in the log messages; they simply don't link yet because of the
missing attributes.

And that brings me to the other aspect that would be solved. Currently, if
you're outside a working copy and looking directly into the repository,
these bug numbers don't link *because* it's only linked through directory
attributes on working copies. Why? Allow this linkage to be specified
globally or per-repository. It makes reasonable sense, and you could still
override it using per-directory working copy attributes.

Features like this work great on small repositories, but on this 5.25 GB
repository with many directory levels, and many independent "views", it
doesn't really work any more.

Thanks,

        -Jaap-

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Received on Tue Jul 11 22:16:59 2006