Re: Possible idea on repository-wide defaults

Greg Hudson wrote:
> First of all, never ever ever ever think of .subversion/config stanzas
> en masse as coming from the repository. We have some dangerous
> preferences in there like the diff command, which should only ever be
> configured by the client for security reasons.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that /all/ of the config stanzas could be
overloaded from the server. I merely meant that the site administrator might
want to create /some/ default stanzas (I know that there have been specific
requests for ignores and autoprops in the past).

>
> Ignoring that little botch, who says keywords, auto-props, and ignores
> should be repository-wide defaults? It's quite possible that someone
> will want to apply different keywords, default properties, and ignore
> patterns to different parts of a repository.

Good point. That would make these possibly properties of the containing
directory instead, which leads us back to inheritance of properties again, since
we shouldn't force each subdirectory to contain project-wide props. Hmmm...

John

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