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Re: Possible idea on repository-wide defaults

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2004-06-20 19:02:49 CEST

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 13:00, John Peacock wrote:
> 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).

Okay. I think it's best to think of these feature improvements as
"moving auto-props from the config file to properties" and "enhancing
ignores using property inheritance or something similar".

> 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...

Right. Perhaps auto-props could act as a poor man's property
inheritance, if we fixed where it lives.

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