repos-side config bits (was: svn:mime-type and detecting mergeability)

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:23:26PM -0500, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>...
> > Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:
> > > Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> writes:
> > > > He thinks this should be a repository option (which places it
>...
> > > That sounds good to me. And we can implement the client side now,
> > > leaving the repository side for post-1.0.

Adding features, Karl? Alpha means they go into the post-1.0 bucket and need
to "work hard" to get out of the bucket. IMO, this feature doesn't really
seem to hit the bar for a post-alpha feature addition.

[ of course, if a patch comes along and it is obviously low-impact... ]

>...
> I dunno, Ben. I think it would be cool if Subversion's repository
> could propogate default config options to working copies associated
> with that repository. Think repos-wide svn:ignores,
> svn:textual-mimetype, etc.

And a replacement for CVS's rcstemplate (the default text for commits that
pop up $EDITOR).

> Without such, every user, on every machine
> on which they use Subversion, has just that many more magic steps they
> have to take before their working copies are properly set up. What's
> more, those configuration may not be desirable for all working copies
> they have -- these are per-repository types of options.

Right.

It would be nice to file these as post-1.0, tho...

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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