Re: inheritable properties on directories?

"Edward S. Marshall" <esm@logic.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is there currently some mechanism for marking properties on a directory
> as inheritable by subdirectories, ie. any new directory created will
> have the parent's properties (I'm thinking along the lines of the sticky
> bit under UNIX)?

Nope.

> Assuming something like this would be desirable, are there any nasty
> side-effects I'm not thinking of?

Well, you have the problem of how to deal with people checking out a
subdirectory of the directory with the defaults. Say I have this in
my repos:

   /trunk (ignore *.o, *.lo, *.pyc)
      /subdir (ignore *.elc)

If I check out /trunk/subdir instead of /trunk, how do I get those
trickle-down properties? And even if I get them when I checkout, how
do I get the updates to them if someone changes /trunk's ignore list?

There's just a whole can of worms involved in this (unfortunately,
cause I think it'd be a great feature).

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Received on Thu Oct 31 18:09:46 2002