On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 07:54, nick vajberg wrote:
> 1) New svn:keyword : History. This would replace
> $History$ with a verbose, nicely formatted history of
> the file. We have to distribute source files gzip'ed
> and the recipient require history comments in each
> file header. Updating the history manually is very
> time consuming and errorphrone. Any thoughts?
I'll assume you want this to behave like an actual keyword, not like the
$Log$ pseudo-keyword in RCS/CVS (where history information is added
incrementally after the $Log$ keyword, certain operations can mess up
the history, and there's no way to prevent merge conflicts resulting
from the history).
Our translation code assumes that keywords are short and can't span
multiple lines. That could change, but if the keyword text which needs
to be substituted can be very long ("$History: <100Kbytes here>"), then
substitution can't be done streamily. If you read "$History:" followed
by a million bytes, and the end of the file comes before the closing
'$', then you didn't really have a keyword, so you have to put those
million bytes back in untouched, so you'd better have been saving them.
Not the end of the world, maybe, but it's another reason why it's a pain
in the ass.
If dollar signs appear in the log, they'd have to be quoted, which kind
of interferes with the "nicely formatted" part.
Fetching the log information for a file during translation is would
require opening an extra repository session for that purpose. Doable,
but also a pain in the ass, and it isn't 100% transparent to the user
(for instance, if you use svn+ssh and ssh requires a password, opening
an extra session means being asked for your password an extra time).
So, nobody here is likely to devote time to it, and even if someone
wrote a patch, we'd be very leary of committing it.
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Received on Wed Nov 26 17:59:56 2003