Re: svn commit: rev 5289 - in trunk/subversion: libsvn_client libsvn_fs libsvn_ra libsvn_ra_dav libsvn_repos libsvn_subr libsvn_wc svnserve tests/libsvn_fs

Karl Fogel wrote:

>Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
>
>
>>Can you start using the client to make these changes? Using the CGI script
>>means that the hook script doesn't run, which means that the mailing list
>>won't get notifications of the change.
>>
>>I'd even go so far as to state that the CGI should be removed.
>>
>>
>
>If the client method showed *diffs*, then yes. But right now, it just
>shows the new propval in its entirety, and you can't tell what changed.
>
>I frankly find those mails useless. Does anyone find them useful?
>
No, but I wonder -- couldn't svnlook give you both the old and the new
value of the prop? Then the hook script could construct diffs for props
in the svn: namespace (which we know to be text).

>(To get diffs, we need the pre- and post- hooks to cooperate.)
>
>
Or that, yes. I think it's worth the effort, because the propchange
mails *could* be quite useful if they did diffs.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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