RE: Re: svn commit: rev 2480 - trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline

> From: Kevin Pilch-Bisson [mailto:kevin@pilch-bisson.net]
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 07:57:08AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >
> > > + " svn:executable - If present, make the file executable.
> (Any\n"
> > > + " attempt to set this property on a directory will be
> > > ignored.)\n"
> >
> > Or you might simply say, "for files only".
>
> Well I was trying to be consistent with my upcoming patch for
> svn_wc_prop_set,
> which actively ignores the property on directories (as opposed to
> erroring).
>

Why would you want to do that? Erroring out on incorrect behavior
instead of silently handling a user mistake is much more sensible.

Bill

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Received on Fri Jul 12 18:03:05 2002