Re: [REQ] WC-only properties (local:)

On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:14 AM, Archie Cobbs wrote:

> Kevin Ballard wrote:
>> What, you're telling me to make a wrapper that, on every use, adds the
>> properties to the files, runs svn, then removes the properties from
>> the
>> files? That would be slow and *extremely* hackish and almost
>> impossible
>> to get working.
>>
>>> So what you're asking for is purely client-side stuff... therefore
>>> maybe
>>> this could all be done in a wrapper script around the "svn" command.
>
> Well, it sounds like you're asking for 'svn' to implement what is
> essentialy that exact same functionality, just within the 'svn'
> binary itself instead of in a wrapper script... not sure that would
> make it any less "hackish"...

What you're asking me to do is write a wrapper that recurses into every
directory tree rooted at the modified files/dirs and write to each
affected property, do the action, then recurse back into every one and
reverse that property modification. That's a lot of work and seems like
it would extremely slow. What I'm asking is for a certain prefixed
property to simply not be committed to the repo, as well as when using
the special svn: properties to simply take a look at the relevant
local:svn: property as well. It would be a lot more efficient and
probably easier to do than what you're asking.

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Kevin Ballard
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