This sounds good, but for post-1.0.
-K
"Jonathan M. Manning" <jmanning@alisa-jon.net> writes:
> Hi, with all the traffic lately, I wanted to put a few ideas together
> from this thread before they got lost.
>
> Alias-based solution to:
> Keyword Internationalization & Short Keywords & Long Keywords & Custom
> Aliases.
>
> Summary:
> For svn keyword translation, implement *just* the Long Keywords.
> Provide an alias mechanism for defining custom keywords.
>
> All the rest (internationalization, short keywords, id, etc) all
> become just aliases.
>
> So you would define short keywords, non-english keywords, custom
> aliases, etc in a keyword_alias file/properties on a per-project basis.
>
>
> More details:
>
> There should be a basic default set of aliases, which includes the
> short keywords, id, etc.
> id: FileName Date Author Revision
> Revision: LastChangedRevision
> Date: LastChangedDate
> Author: LastChangedBy
>
> Then add what you need for your project:
>
> (Whatever you need for the people working on your project to
> understand the meaning of these fields. Please forgive the rough
> translations.)
> Autor: Author
> auteur: Author
> Datums: Date
> fecha: Date
> Neuausgabe: Revision
>
> Project specific:
> FreeBSD: FileName FreeBSDVersion Date Author Revision
> NetBSD: ... NetBSDVersion ...
> (though never both defined in the same project...) It should ignore
> unknown keywords.
>
>
> This is far from all the details needed, but it's the basic format of
> a keywords system that handles all the exception cases mentioned so
> far... reduced to a single alias-based system.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> ~Jonathan
>
>
>
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